Novel systems and methods for performing contextual information retrieval

A system for generating a syntactically-accurate response to a query using a statistically-encoded database comprising:

• a) a first user interface for receiving the query;
• b) a processing module (AKA a processing object) for encoding the query to form a query statement consisting of at least one sCLID wherein the sCLID represents a wordset identifying the positional relationship of the words forming the wordset and a frequency value that provides a statistically accurate representation of the information content of the wordset as it exists in the statistically-encoded database;
• c) a search module for identifying the syntactically-accurate response from the statistically-encoded database using the query statement;
• and,
• d) a second user interface for providing the syntactically-accurate response to a user.

A method of efficiently storing information in an encoded database comprising a plurality of unique wordsets, each wordset associated with a link count, the method comprising:

• a) retrieving a document;
• and,
• b) processing the document by:
• i) extracting one or more sentences from the document;
• ii) parsing each sentence into one or more wordsets wherein
• (a) each wordset includes a plurality of words;
• (b) words within each wordset are positionally related to each other based on a pre-defined word distance;
• and,
• (c) all words in the sentence are initially a member of at least one wordset;
• iii) comparing parsed wordsets to stored wordsets in the encoded database wherein parsed wordsets not present in the encoded database are stored in the encoded database;
• iv) associating each word in each sentence to a wordset in the encoded database;
• v) incrementing the associated link count for each wordset present in the encoded database and the parsed sentence;
• and,
• vi) associating the document to the parsed sentence.