Computer program product for retrieving multi-media objects using a natural language having a pronoun
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorMichel J. Denber
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Abstract
A computer program product for retrieving multi-media objects uses a natural language having a pronoun. The computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon for performing the steps of receiving a query in the natural language containing the pronoun; determining the pronoun in the query; determining whether either a phrase or sentence containing the pronoun conforms to a predetermined phrase structure; determining a noun or noun phrase to which the pronoun refers; and processing the query.
Claims15
A computer program product for retrieving multi-media objects using a natural language containing a pronoun, comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon for performing the steps of:
- (a) receiving a query in the natural language containing the pronoun;
- (b) determining the pronoun in the query;
- (c) determining whether either a phrase or sentence containing the pronoun conforms to a predetermined phrase structure;
- (d) determining a noun or noun phrase to which the pronoun refers based on step (c);
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- (e) processing the query based on step (d).
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