International Business Machines Corporation
EFFICIENTLY GENERATING ACCURATE RESPONSES TO A MULTI-FACET QUESTION BY A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM

Abstract:

A controller receives a multi-facet natural language question from a user at a question answering system and generates one or more inquiry questions to submit to the question answering system for an order type requirement of the multi-facet natural language question. The controller evaluates responses, each with a respective confidence score by the question answering system, to each of the one or more inquiry questions to identify a selection of answers from among the responses, the selection of answers capped at a number of specific answers assessed for the multi-facet natural language question. The controller merges the selection of answers into a single aggregated answer to return to the user in response to the multi-facet natural language question.