Patent ID: 8898154
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for ranking answers to a conceptual query, said method comprising: a processor of a computer system receiving the conceptual query, wherein said query comprises a set of queried concepts of a general set of concepts; said processor receiving a set of semantic schemas, wherein said set of semantic schemas comprises a received subset of concepts of said set of queried concepts and further comprises a plurality of relationships, wherein a relationship of said plurality of relationships relates two or more concepts of said general set of concepts, wherein a first schema of said set of semantic schemas comprises a first subset of concepts of said received subset of concepts, a second concept of said general set of concepts, a third concept of said general set of concepts, and a first set of relationships of said plurality of relationships, wherein said first subset of concepts comprises a first concept of said received subset of concepts, wherein a first relationship of said first set of relationships relates said first concept to said second concept, wherein said first relationship is associated with a first relationship strength of a plurality of relationship strengths, wherein said first concept is associated with a first concept weight within said conceptual query of a set of concept weights, wherein said second concept is associated with a second concept strength of a set of concept strengths, and wherein said second concept is associated with a second semantic weight in said first schema of a set of semantic weights; said processor identifying a first semantic value of said first schema to said query as a function of said first subset of concepts and as a further function of said first set of relationships; said processor identifying a first relative relevance of said first schema to said query as a function of said first semantic value of said first schema to said query, wherein wherein said processor ranking said first schema among said set of semantic schemas as a function of said first relative relevance.