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Method and system for retrieving confirming sentences

  • US 20040059718A1
  • Filed: 09/19/2002
  • Published: 03/25/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing to a user sentences from a sentence database in response to a query, the method comprising:

  • receiving the query;

    defining indexing units based upon the query, the indexing units including both lemma from the query and extended indexing units associated with the query; and

    retrieving a plurality of sentences from the sentence database using the defined indexing units as search parameters;

    determining a similarity between each of the plurality of retrieved sentences and the query, wherein each similarity is determined as a function of a linguistic weight of a term in the query; and

    ranking the plurality of retrieved sentences based upon the determined similarities.

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