Global Patent Index - EP 1016003 A1

EP 1016003 A1 20000705 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERYING AND SEMANTIC SEARCHING OF AN INFORMATION DATABASE

Title (en)

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERYING AND SEMANTIC SEARCHING OF AN INFORMATION DATABASE

Title (de)

VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUM ABFRAGEN MIT NATÜRLICHER SPRACHE UND ZUM SEMANTISCHEN SUCHEN EINER INFORMATIONDATENBANK

Title (fr)

PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF D'INTERROGATION EN LANGUE NATURELLE ET RECHERCHE SEMANTIQUE D'UNE INFORMATION DANS UNE BASE DE DONNEES

Publication

EP 1016003 A1 20000705 (EN)

Application

EP 97950947 A 19971204

Priority

  • US 9722943 W 19971204
  • US 76069196 A 19961204

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO9825217A1] The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for receiving a user's query in natural language (e.g., English) form, searching an electronic database for sentences that may provide semantically meaningful answers to the query, identifying those sentences that are deemed to answer the question, and quantifying the degree to which the sentences answer the question.

IPC 1-7

G06F 17/30

IPC 8 full level

G06F 17/30 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G06F 16/24522 (2018.12); G06F 16/3344 (2018.12)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 9825217A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 9825217 A1 19980611; AU 5381698 A 19980629; CA 2273902 A1 19980611; EP 1016003 A1 20000705

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 9722943 W 19971204; AU 5381698 A 19971204; CA 2273902 A 19971204; EP 97950947 A 19971204