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AssigneeAsk Jeeves, Inc.
InventorsTom Harrison, Michael E. Barrett, Swarup Reddi, John Lowe, Gary Chevsky
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An enhanced natural language information retrieval technique tokenizes an incoming query, comparing the tokenized representation against a collection of query templates. Query templates include a first portion having one or more query patterns representative of a query and in a form suitable for matching the tokenized representation of an incoming query. Query templates also include one or more information retrieval commands that are designed to return information relevant to those query patterns in its first portion. The enhanced natural language information retrieval technique selects those query templates that are determined to be most relevant to the incoming query (via its tokenized representation) and initiates one or more information retrieval commands associated with the selected query templates.
A natural language information retrieval method, comprising:
A natural language method to tokenize a query, comprising:
The method of claim 40, wherein the act of combining two or more identified tokens in an ordered sequence comprises a proximity connector.
A natural language query template accessible by a program being executed on a programmable control device, comprising:
A method to index data, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.