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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1995
Samuel D Hobson, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);
David E Heckerman, Bellevue, WA (US);
John S Breese, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Erich-So slashedren Finkelstein, Bellevue, WA (US);
Gregory L Shaw, Kirkland, WA (US);
James R Flynn, Bellevue, WA (US);
Karen Jensen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An improved free text query method and system is provided as part of an improved on-line help system. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the on-line help system provides a free text query system that performs partial analysis. The partial analysis performed by the preferred embodiment includes identifying keywords within input provided by the user, performing disambiguation analysis, performing definiteness analysis, performing capitalization analysis, and generating a ranked list of candidates according to a probability associated with each candidate. In addition, the preferred embodiment of the present invention is internationalizable. That is, the present invention is easily ported between different languages.