Patents by Inventor Hannah Copperman

Hannah Copperman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Semi-automatic example-based induction of semantic translation rules to support natural language search
    Patent number: 8041697
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for generating a semantic translation rule to support natural language search. In one method, a first expression and a second expression are received. A first representation is generated based on the first expression, and a second representation is generated based on the second expression. Aligned pairs of a first term in the first representation and a second term in the second representation are determined. For each aligned pair, the first term and the second term are replaced with a variable associated with the aligned pair. Word facts that occur in both the first representation and the second representation are removed from the first representation and the second representation. The remaining word facts in the first representation are replaced with a broader representation of the word facts. The translation rule including the first representation, an operator, and the second semantic representation is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Emmanuel Rayner, Richard Crouch, Hannah Copperman, Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, Martin Henk Van Den Berg
  • Semi-Automatic Example-Based Induction of Semantic Translation Rules to Support Natural Language Search
    Publication number: 20090138454
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for generating a semantic translation rule to support natural language search. In one method, a first expression and a second expression are received. A first representation is generated based on the first expression, and a second representation is generated based on the second expression. Aligned pairs of a first term in the first representation and a second term in the second representation are determined. For each aligned pair, the first term and the second term are replaced with a variable associated with the aligned pair. Word facts that occur in both the first representation and the second representation are removed from the first representation and the second representation. The remaining word facts in the first representation are replaced with a broader representation of the word facts. The translation rule including the first representation, an operator, and the second semantic representation is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: POWERSET, INC.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Rayner, Richard Crouch, Hannah Copperman, Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, Martin Henk Van den Berg