AU2001261631A1 - Answering natural language queries - Google Patents

Answering natural language queries

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Publication number
AU2001261631A1
AU2001261631A1 AU2001261631A AU6163101A AU2001261631A1 AU 2001261631 A1 AU2001261631 A1 AU 2001261631A1 AU 2001261631 A AU2001261631 A AU 2001261631A AU 6163101 A AU6163101 A AU 6163101A AU 2001261631 A1 AU2001261631 A1 AU 2001261631A1
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Prior art keywords
natural language
language queries
answering natural
answering
queries
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Abandoned
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AU2001261631A
Inventor
Gary Mekikian
Deniz Yuret
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InQuira Inc
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Answerfriend com Inc
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Priority claimed from US09/572,770 external-priority patent/US6957213B1/en
Application filed by Answerfriend com Inc filed Critical Answerfriend com Inc
Publication of AU2001261631A1 publication Critical patent/AU2001261631A1/en
Abandoned legal-status Critical Current

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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F16/00—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
    • G06F16/30—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of unstructured textual data
    • G06F16/33—Querying
    • G06F16/3331—Query processing
    • G06F16/334—Query execution
    • G06F16/3344—Query execution using natural language analysis
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F40/00—Handling natural language data
    • G06F40/20—Natural language analysis
    • G06F40/205—Parsing
    • G06F40/211—Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F40/00—Handling natural language data
    • G06F40/20—Natural language analysis
    • G06F40/279—Recognition of textual entities
    • G06F40/289—Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F40/00—Handling natural language data
    • G06F40/40—Processing or translation of natural language
    • G06F40/55—Rule-based translation
    • G06F40/56—Natural language generation

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computational Linguistics (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Artificial Intelligence (AREA)
  • Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology (AREA)
  • General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Data Mining & Analysis (AREA)
  • Databases & Information Systems (AREA)
  • Information Retrieval, Db Structures And Fs Structures Therefor (AREA)
AU2001261631A 2000-05-17 2001-05-16 Answering natural language queries Abandoned AU2001261631A1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (15)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US57218600A 2000-05-17 2000-05-17
US57302500A 2000-05-17 2000-05-17
US57302400A 2000-05-17 2000-05-17
US57302300A 2000-05-17 2000-05-17
US57227600A 2000-05-17 2000-05-17
US09573024 2000-05-17
US09573025 2000-05-17
US09572186 2000-05-17
US09/572,770 US6957213B1 (en) 2000-05-17 2000-05-17 Method of utilizing implicit references to answer a query
US09572770 2000-05-17
US09573023 2000-05-17
US09572276 2000-05-17
US63761600A 2000-08-11 2000-08-11
US09637616 2000-08-11
PCT/US2001/015711 WO2001088662A2 (en) 2000-05-17 2001-05-16 Answering natural language queries

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AU2001261631A1 true AU2001261631A1 (en) 2001-11-26

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