MECHANISMS, METHODS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND DEVICES FOR IDENTIFYING AND DISPLAYING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CANDIDATE ANSWERS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide mechanisms, methods, computer programs and devices for identifying commonalities between candidate answers generated by a Question and Answer (QA) system in response to an input question.SOLUTION: Mechanisms are provided for identifying commonalities between candidate answers generated by a Question and Answer (QA) system in response to an input question. The mechanisms receive a plurality of candidate answers to an input question from the QA system and identify terms present in the candidate answers. The mechanisms determine relationships between terms in each of the candidate answers and determine a common relationship between a first term and a second term, the common relationship being common among at least a subset of the plurality of candidate answers, based on the determined relationships between terms in each of the candidate answers. The mechanisms present the plurality of candidate answers and the common relationship to a user.