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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2008
Martin Henk Van Den Berg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel Bobrow, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert D. Cheslow, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Barney Pell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chad Walters, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Henk Van Den Berg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel Bobrow, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert D. Cheslow, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Barney Pell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chad Walters, San Francisco, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Computer-readable media and a computer system for implementing a natural language search using fact-based structures and for generating such fact-based structures are provided. A fact-based structure is generated using a semantic structure, which represents information, such as text, from a document, such as a web page. Typically, a natural language parser is used to create a semantic structure of the information, and the parser identifies terms, as well as the relationship between the terms. A fact-based structure of a semantic structure allows for a linear structure of these terms and their relationships to be created, while also maintaining identifiers of the terms to convey the dependency of one fact-based structure on another fact-based structure. Additionally, synonyms and hypernyms are identified while generating the fact-based structure to improve the accuracy of the overall search.