Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1992-12-23
1995-01-31
Black, Thomas G.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
395 12, 395934, 36441908, 3642748, 3642854, 364DIG1, G06F 1540
Patent
active
053865561
ABSTRACT:
A natural language (NL) analyzing system is provided with the capability to analyze NL expressions and to resolve ambiguities and present them to the user for verification of correct interpretation. A conceptual model of the system, relevant to the application in which the invention is implemented, is created (customizing the system) by the user, and is stored as a conceptual schema. The schema is built of logical facts representing entities (concepts) and relationships between entities, forming a description of the universe of discourse or object system in question. The entities of the schema have at least one external connection, namely to natural language terms in a vocabulary. The schema itself is completely language independent, though the components of it may have "names" expressed in a natural language such as English. There may be a second connection to the entities, namely where the system is used in a query system for relational data bases. In this case the entities of the schema represent objects in the data base, and thus there is a connection between the entities and those objects of the data base. The actual analysis of NL expressions is performed by a natural language engine (NLE) in cooperation with an analysis grammar and the schema. The analysis results in an intermediate, language-independent logic form representation of the input, which is paraphrased back to NL for verification. If the input is a query, there is a translation into a query language such as SQL.
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Hedin Erik B.
Jonsson Gregor I.
Olsson Lars E.
Sanamrad Mohammad A.
Westling Sven O. G.
Black Thomas G.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Schechter Marc D.
Tassinari, Jr. Robert P.
Von Buhr Maria N.
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