Prose feedback in information access system

• US 20040133603A1
• Filed: 11/06/2003
• Published: 07/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pinehurst Tech, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Lau, Raymond, Chang, Jane Wen, McCandless, Michael Kyle
• Granted Patent: US 7,243,095 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24522 Translation of natural language queries to structured queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/56 Natural language generation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/917 Text
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/959 Network
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method of generating prose in response to a query includes generating a text frame from the query and processing the text frame in conjunction with grammar rules to produce a prose rendition of the query.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of generating prose in response to a query, comprising:

generating a text frame from the query; and

processing the text frame in conjunction with grammar rules to produce a prose rendition of the query.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the text frame comprises a data structure.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 wherein the data structure comprises rows, each of the rows having a key, the key identifying information in each of the rows.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein the data structure further comprises a plurality of data structures.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the grammar rules are natural language rules.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the grammar rules are English.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the generating the text frame further comprises encapsulating the processed text frame in a markup language.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 wherein the markup language is XML.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 wherein the markup language is HTML.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the processing the text frame comprises matching the text frame to the grammar rules.

11. A computer program, residing on a computer-readable medium, comprising instructions for causing a computer to:

generate a text frame from the query; and

process the text frame in conjunction with grammar rules to produce a prose rendition of the query.