Patent
1993-02-02
1997-05-13
Black, Thomas G.
395615, 395613, G06F 1730
Patent
active
056301219
ABSTRACT:
To archive information, a phrase or sentence describing the information, typically expressed in a natural language and conforming to the rules of a grammar (like a natural language grammar) is used to create a structured index which also conforms to the natural language grammar. The structured index has structure because the words in the index have a function and a relationship among each other as determined by the grammar. The index is combined with a location pointer of information to be cataloged, preferably multimedia information, to form a matched pair, i.e., a structured index and a segment (or a pointed to a multimedia object). The matched pair is stored in a database for later retrieval. Retrieval is based on parsing a query into a query structure that is identical or similar to the structured index. A heuristic interface presents the multimedia information along with a template in order to prompt the user into describing the multimedia information with a string of words so that they conform to the grammar.
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Braden-Harder Lisa C.
Kim Michelle Y. L.
Klavans Judith L.
Zadrozny Wlodek W.
Black Thomas G.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Percello Louis J.
Von Buhr Maria N.
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