International Business Machines Corporation
Question answering

Abstract:

Embodiments are directed to determining an intent of a query provided to a question answering (QA) system. Embodiments may map a first (e.g., literal) intent of the query to a different, underlying intent. The mapping may be achieved using a map which represents associations between query intents in a first portion of a frequency distribution of known query intents and query intents not in the first portion of the frequency distribution.