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WO9825217A1:
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERYING AND SEMANTIC SEARCHING OF AN INFORMATION DATABASE[French]
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WO World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
A1 INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED WITH INTERNATIONAL SEARCH REPORT i
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ULICNY, Brian, E.; 1221 1/2 Ozeta Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90069, United States of America
JENSEN, John, B.; 1506 Palm Drive, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254, United States of America
ALLEN, Bradley, P.; 829 Loma Drive, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254, United States of America
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QUARTERDECK CORPORATION, Suite 234, 13160 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-9705, United States of America
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1998-06-11
/ 1997-12-04
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| Application Number: |
WO1997US0022943
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| IPC Code: |
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G06F 17/30;
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G06F 17/30;
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G06F17/30T2P4N; G06F17/30S4P2N;
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| 1996-12-04 |
US1996000760691 |
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| Abstract: |
The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for receiving a user's query in natural language (e.g., English) form, searching an electronic database for sentences that may provide semantically meaningful answers to the query, identifying those sentences that are deemed to answer the question, and quantifying the degree to which the sentences answer the question.
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+ WO 98/25217 PUI / U bY 11ALY11.3
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERYING AND
+ FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to the computerized searching of information databases and, more specifically, to searching the World Wide Web for answers to a natural language question.
+ BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
More and more information of the world's information is currently available on-line in the form of raw or looselyformatted text. The operations and activities of the world's organizations and institutions, large and small, formal and informal, are increasingly stored in on-line repositories of memoranda, letters, text transcriptions, reports, catechisms of "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQs), electronic mail, announcements, on-line newsgroup and bulletin board postings, World Wide Web homepages, catalogs, and brochures, and so on.
+ SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention is a software application designed to find answers to user- submitted queries posed in English from on-line documents. The invention consists of three major components (application programs) that will be described in detail below: a user interface, a parser, and a sentence evaluator that determines the extent to which a given sentence answers a submitted question.
+ Brief Description of the Drawings
Figure 1 is a high level block diagram of a computer adapted to perform the method of the invention.
+ DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Answer Me! locates text relevant to a user-specified question posed in a natural language format; analyzes that text for sentences that may provide answers to the question; identifies those sentences that are deemed to answer the question; and evaluates the degree to which those sentences actually constitute answers to the question.
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