US Patent 10387560 Automating table-based groundtruth generation

A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for automating the generation of table-based groundtruth, comprising: receiving a document comprising unstructured text and a table; generating questions by applying a template the contents of the table; performing QA pair generation operations on the table to generate QA pairs, each QA pair comprising a question generated by applying the template; and, assigning a score to each QA pair, the score providing an indicator of user interest to each QA pair, the score being based on a score generation methodology using the unstructured text and the table.