Patent ID: 6167370
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A natural language document analysis and selection system comprising,a general purpose computer having a monitor, a central processing unit (CPU), a user input device for generating request data representing a natural language request, and a communications device for communication with local and remote natural language document databases,said CPU comprising storage means for storing the request data, a semantic processor for generating request subject-action-object (SAO) extractions in response to receiving request data and representations of the request SAO extractions, and said storage means for storing said representations of the request SAO extractions, and whereinsaid communication device for sending to local or remote databases search data representative of at least one of said request SAO extractions and for conveying to said CPU candidate document data related to the search data for storage in said storage means, the candidate document data representing natural language document text,said semantic processor for generating candidate document SAO extractions in response to receiving candidate document data, and representations of the candidate document SAO extractions, andsaid storage means also storing the representations of candidate document SAO extractions.