Managing an exchange that fulfills natural language travel requests

A method for managing an exchange that fulfills natural language travel requests, the method comprising:

• receiving a bid from a first party, the bid comprising a set of metadata attributes;
• parsing the bid to:
• evaluate the set of metadata attributes for the bid;
• and
• determine at least one category to associate with the bid based upon the set of metadata attributes of the bid;
• generating equivalent phrases for the set of metadata attributes of the bid by applying pattern recognition artificial intelligence to the set of metadata attributes, the equivalent phrases representing available bid queries;
• and
• placing the bid request in an exchange system for fulfillment, the bid request comprising at least one of the available bid queries.

A system for managing an exchange that fulfills natural language itinerary requests, the system comprising:

• a memory for storing executable instructions;
• a processor for executing the instructions;
• a publishing module stored in memory and executable by the processor to receive a plurality of inventory records from a plurality of suppliers, each of the plurality of inventory records pertaining to an available offering, the offering being defined by a set of metadata attributes;
• and
• a pattern recognition artificial intelligence engine stored in memory and executable by the processor to generate equivalent phrases for the set of metadata attributes from each inventory record by applying pattern recognition artificial intelligence to the set of metadata attributes, the equivalent phrases representing possible natural language queries to which an inventory record may correspond.