Patent ID: 11971887
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A computer system, the computer system comprising:
one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more computer-readable memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising:
receiving a natural language query;
automatically identifying one or more logically neutral and non-logically neutral anchors in the natural language query;
automatically identifying boundaries comprising one or more logically neutral phrases by detecting semantic and logical relations between verbal phrases and functional language between and adjacent to the one or more logically neutral and non-logically neutral anchors to reintroduce non-logically neutral language back into a non-logically neutral portion of the natural language query;
generating a modified natural language query by automatically removing the boundaries comprising the one or more logically neutral phrases and optionally replacing the one or more logically neutral phrases in the natural language query; and
providing the modified natural language query to a query processing system for further processing.