G06F 16/3334
Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries
Official title: {Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries}
G06F16/3334 (Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries) appears on 1,151 US grants and 1,393 published applications in this corpus.
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