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

Claim 0:
1. A computer-based method of identifying and replacing logically neutral phrases in natural language queries, the 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.