EXTRACTING CANDIDATE ANSWERS FOR A KNOWLEDGE BASE FROM CONVERSATIONAL SOURCES

摘要

A method and system is provided to extract candidate utterances from conversational data. The conversational data includes a plurality of utterances and is stored in an electronic storage. A superficial property algorithm is applied to the stored conversational data. The superficial property algorithm is used to (i) search at least a portion of the stored conversational data by application of at least one superficial property of the superficial property algorithm, (ii) it is determined when the searched portion of the conversational data includes a candidate utterance, and (iii) then the portion of the conversational data which was determined to be the candidate utterance is then stored.