Patent ID: 7346490
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of information retrieval, performed on a computer system that matches text in documents and other text-forms against user-defined descriptions of concepts, comprising: a) identification of linguistic entities in the text of documents and other text-forms; b) annotation of said identified linguistic entities in a text markup language to produce linguistically annotated documents and other text-forms; c) storage of said linguistically annotated documents and other text-forms; d) identification of concepts using linguistic information, where said concepts are represented in a concept specification language and said concepts occur in one of: e) annotation of said identified concepts in said text markup language to produce conceptually annotated documents and other text-forms; f) storage of said conceptually annotated documents and other text-forms; g) defining and learning concept representations of said concept specification language, including: h) checking user-defined descriptions of concepts represented in said concept specification language; and i) retrieval by matching said user-defined descriptions of concepts against said conceptually annotated documents and other text-forms.