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Knowledge system method and appparatus

  • US 20040122656A1
  • Filed: 09/11/2003
  • Published: 06/24/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for acquiring a knowledge base of associated ideas comprising the steps of:

  • providing a pair of documents representing the same idea in two different languages, wherein the first of said pair of documents is expressed in a first language, and the second of said pair of documents is expressed in a second language;

    receiving a query to be analyzed, wherein said query is expressed in said first language, and wherein said query consists of a word or word string;

    analyzing said first of said pair of documents to identify all occurrences of said query in said first of said pair of documents;

    selecting a plurality of ranges of words in said second of said pair of documents, wherein said selected ranges correspond to the occurrences of said query in said first of said pair of documents;

    calculating the frequency of words and word strings contained in said selected ranges;

    tabulating said frequency based on occurrences of all unique words and word strings from said calculating step; and

    returning a list of occurrences of all unique words and word strings if said unique words and word strings occur in more than one of the selected ranges using said tabulated frequency.

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