Inter thread anaphora resolution

摘要

An approach is provided to resolve anaphors between posts, or threads, in a threaded discussion, for example an online forum. The approach analyzes a number of posts that are included in threads of an online forum. During the analysis, the approach identifies terms in parent posts, detects anaphors in child posts that reference the terms in the parent posts, and resolves the anaphor found in the child post with the term. The parent post with the identified term and the child post with the resolved anaphor are then stored in the memory for use by information handling systems, such as question answering (QA) systems.

主权项

1. An information handling system comprising:
one or more processors; one or more data stores accessible by at least one of the processors; a memory coupled to at least one of the processors; and a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of: analyzing a plurality of posts included in one or more threads of a threaded discussion, wherein the analyzing further comprises:
identifying a term in a parent post of the threaded discussion;detecting that an anaphor in a child post of the threaded discussion references the identified term; andresolving the anaphor found in the child post with the identified term; storing the parent post with the identified term and the child post with the resolved anaphor in the memory; and ingesting the parent post with the identified term and the child post with the resolved anaphor into a corpus utilized by a question answering (QA) system.