US Patent 11176463 Automating table-based groundtruth generation

A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for using table-based groundtruth to train a question-answer (QA) system, comprising: receiving a corpus of text comprising unstructured text and a table; performing QA pair generation operations on the unstructured text and the table to generate QA pairs, the QA pairs being based upon information obtained from the table; assigning a score to each QA pair, the score corresponding to an indicator of user interest.