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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Christopher F. Ackermann, Fairfax, VA (US);
Charles E. Beller, Baltimore, MD (US);
Stephen A. Boxwell, Columbus, OH (US);
Edward G. Katz, Washington, DC (US);
Kristen M. Summers, Takoma Park, MD (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and a method for determining user synonyms in a query processing system is disclosed. A first query is received from a user of the query processing system. The query is processed through the query processing system to generate results for the first query. The user then provides a second query. The system determines a contextual similarity between the first query and the second query. When the first query and the second query are determined to be contextually similar, a first term is identified in the first query that is different from a second term in the second query. Once identified, the system determines if the first term and the second term are not listed as synonyms in the thesaurus. If they are not listed as synonyms they can be added as synonyms to the thesaurus.