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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2011
John R. Provine, New York, NY (US);
Engin Cinar Sahin, New York, NY (US);
Vinicius J. Fortuna, New York, NY (US);
Andrew W. Hogue, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ (US);
Kevin Lerman, New York, NY (US);
Daniel Loreto, New York, NY (US);
John R. Provine, New York, NY (US);
Engin Cinar Sahin, New York, NY (US);
Vinicius J. Fortuna, New York, NY (US);
Andrew W. Hogue, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ (US);
Kevin Lerman, New York, NY (US);
Daniel Loreto, New York, NY (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a fact query; determining an expected type of answer to the fact query; identifying search results responsive to the fact query; identifying phrases from the resources corresponding to the search results that correspond to a form of the expected type; determining a score for each of the identified phrases; and presenting an answer to the fact query using the scores.