International Business Machines Corporation
Precision batch interaction with a question answering system

Abstract:

Batch interaction with a computerized question answering system can produce an answer that more closely relates to a user's information need. A batch of questions can be generated interactively, and provides a context for a first question received from a user. The batch of questions includes or more additional questions which have terms with a nonsynonymous semantic relation to a first term in the first question. A question answering system can process the batch of questions to determine candidate answers. An answer to the first question can be determined based, at least in part, on a combined ranking of the candidate answers.