Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for allowing concept based information searching. Textual information is collected utilizing a network. The textual information is parsed to create topic specific information packets, which are stored in an information cache. The system parses a user query and compares the parsed user query with the information packets in the information cache to locate matching information packets and displays the matching information packets to a user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 10, 2000
Date of Patent:
June 21, 2005
Assignee:
Discern Communications, Inc.
Inventors:
James F. Arnold, David J. Israel, W. Mabry Tyson, John S. Bear, Loren L. Voss
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for linguistic pattern recognition of information. Initially, textual information is retrieved from a data source utilizing a network. The textual information is then segmented into a plurality of phrases, which are then scanned for patterns of interest. For each pattern of interest found a corresponding event structure is built. Event structures that provide information about essentially the same incident are then merged.
Abstract: A natural language information querying system includes an indexing facility configured to automatically generate indices of updated textual sources based on one or more predefined grammars and a database coupled to the indexing facility to store the indices for subsequent searching.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 17, 1999
Date of Patent:
July 29, 2003
Assignee:
Discern Communications, Inc.
Inventors:
Douglas E. Appelt, James Frederick Arnold, John S. Bear, Jerry Robert Hobbs, David J. Israel, Megumi Kameyama, David L. Martin, Karen Louise Myers, Gopalan Ravichandran, Mark Edward Stickel, William Mabry Tyson
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