Patent ID: 7689410
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
1. A lexical semantic system for modeling and interpreting semantics of a natural language input on a computer comprising: a set of lexical semantic categories selected to model content of the natural language input, the set of lexical semantic categories is stored at a processor readable storage medium of a computing system, the set of lexical semantic categories including a syntactic category, a semantic role that identifies a function of a particular syntactic category within a particular natural language utterance, a mapping between the syntactic category and the semantic role, and the syntactic categories defining structural elements of a sentence, the set of lexical semantic categories further including types of speech including noun, modifier, and verb classes, each semantic role representing an argument or modifier across a range of the noun, and verb classes; and a processor, being a functional component of the system, accessing the set of lexical semantic categories and activated by the natural language input to perform a method for associating content of the natural language input to one or more categories of the set of lexical semantic categories, the method comprising: