International Business Machines Corporation

Iphrase.com, Inc.

2005 Keel Company, Inc.

Iphase.com, Inc.

Jane Wen Chang

Raymond Lau

Michael Kyle McCandless

Kenney Ng

John Schweikert

Methods and apparatus, including computer products, for generating a natural language expression in response to a query. A computer-implemented method of generating a natural language expression in response to a query, includes generating a text frame from the query, and processing the text frame in conjunction with a grammar and one or more logic configuration files applied recursively to the text frame to generate the natural language expression from the query, the logic configuration files including functions that can pass arguments.

Natural language expression in response to a query

A method of maintaining a collection of data includes extracting text from the collection of data, the text corresponding to keys and values, generating a feature lexicon from the extracted text, generating a language lexicon from the extracted text and generating configuration files corresponding to the extracted text.

Bootstrapping in information access systems

A method of database aliasing is provided. A method for aliasing a collection of data includes extracting names and associated terms from the collection of data, generating normalized text from the names and associated terms, parsing the normalized text in conjunction with a grammar to produce meaning fragments and mapping the meaning fragments to a collection of concepts.

Database aliasing in information access system

A method of document retrieval is provided. The method includes assigning concept labels to documents contained in a collection according to grammar rules, receiving a query, converting the query to a query concept using the grammar rules, and mapping the query concept to a concept label.

Direct navigation for information retrieval

A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, generating an inverse index of the collection of data and generating results to the query in conjunction with the inverse index.

Information retrieval from a collection of data

A method of generating prose in response to a query includes generating a text frame from the query and processing the text frame in conjunction with grammar rules to produce a prose rendition of the query.

Prose feedback in information access system

A method of accessing information from a wireless device including processing a query and a wireless identifier received from the wireless device, searching a collection of data for a set of results matching the query, selectively reducing the set of results to generate a subset of results and outputting the subset of results on the wireless device according to a style sheet.

Wireless information retrieval

A method of discarding results of a search of a collection of data includes parsing a query to produce fragments, searching the collection of data for matches to the fragments, determining a number of matches, placing the matches in a hierarchical tree data structure, determining an amount of space to display the matches, eliminating matches in the hierarchical tree data structure to fit within the amount of space and summarizing the eliminated matches.

Intelligent discard in information access system

A method of accessing information includes processing a query, searching a collection of data for a set of results matching the query, selectively reducing the set of results to generate a subset of results, outputting a prose rendition of the query and outputting the subset of results.

Information access method

A method of parsing ambiguous grammar includes pre-compiling the grammar into a binary format, parsing a query, outputting a graph by combining the parsed query and the binary format of the grammar and outputting a frame representation of potential parses in the graph.

Parsing ambiguous grammar

A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, augmenting the query with canonical non-terminal concepts, generating an inverse index of the collection of data, the inverse index including canonical non-terminal representations of the data and generating results to the augmented query in conjunction with the inverse index.

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Jane Wen Chang