METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR READING DOCUMENTS AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS USING MATERIAL FROM THESE DOCUMENTS

摘要

A method and apparatus that provides the reading of text from documents and the extraction of key information from this text along with the use of this key information to answer questions posed by a user by presenting the most relevant sentence in the text in reply to the user's query. Based upon selectivity methodologies, the method and apparatus provides for search and retrieval based upon natural language inquiries with an increase in accuracy and efficiency.