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Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2021
Applicant:

Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Manik Malhotra, Bengaluru KA, IN;

Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P, Kovilpatti, IN;

Sashikumar Venkataraman, Andover, MA (US);

Assignee:

Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for identifying a meaning of an ambiguous term in a natural language query. The media guidance application isolates first and second terms from a query received from a user and identifies, in a knowledge graph, first and second pluralities of candidate components associated with the first and second terms. The first and second terms each having multiple candidate components indicates the first and second terms have ambiguous meanings. The media guidance application matches each candidate component of the first and second pluralities of candidate components to form a plurality of pairs and determines strength of association for each pair in the plurality of pairs. The media guidance application filters the plurality of pairs by strength of association for each pair and determines a plurality of possible meanings based on the filtered plurality of pairs. The media guidance application selects a meaning from the plurality of possible meanings.


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