MULTILINGUAL DATA QUERYING

• US 20070250493A1
• Filed: 08/31/2006
• Published: 10/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Inventors: Peoples, Bruce E., Johnson, Michael R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,991,608 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3337 Translation of the query language, e.g. Chinese to English

Abstract

In one aspect, a method for multilingual data querying, includes determining a word ontology of a base word in a source language, generating a set of words representing the word ontology of the base word, translating at least a subset of the set of words into a target language and translating the at least a subset of the set of words from the target language into the source language of the base word.

Claims

1. A method for multilingual data querying, comprising:

determining a word ontology of a base word in a source language;

generating a set of words representing the word ontology of the base word;

translating at least a subset of the set of words into a target language; and

translating the at least a subset of the set of words from the target language into the source language of the base word.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the base word from a user.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein determining the word ontology of the base word comprises determining a word ontology based on a part of speech.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein determining a word ontology based on a part of speech comprises determining a word ontology of the word based on a part of speech selected by the user.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein generating a set of words representing the word ontology of the based word comprises generating a set of words selected from the group consisting of homonyms, synonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein translating the at least a subset of the set of words comprises translating a set of words selected by a user.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising receiving selections from the user from the at least a subset of the set of words.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising retrieving data from an indexed database based on the selections from the user.

9. An apparatus for multilingual data querying, comprising:

circuitry to;

determine an ontology of a base word in a source language;

generate a set of words based on the ontology of the base word;

translate at least a subset of the set of words into a target language; and

translate the at least a subset of the set of words from the target language into the source language of the base word.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the circuitry comprises at least one of a processor, a memory, programmable logic and logic gates.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising circuitry to receive the base word from a user.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the circuitry to determine the word ontology of the base word comprises circuitry to determine a word ontology based on a part of speech.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein the circuitry to determine a word ontology based on a part of speech comprises circuitry to determine a word ontology of the word based on a part of speech selected by a user.

14. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the circuitry to generate a set of words representing the word ontology of the based word comprises circuitry to generate a set of words selected from the group consisting of homonyms, synonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the circuitry to translate the at least a subset of the set of words comprises circuitry to translate a set of words selected by a user.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising circuitry to receive selections from a user from the at least a subset of the set of words.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising circuitry to retrieve data from an indexed database based on the selections from the user.

18. An article comprising a machine-readable medium that stores executable instructions for multilingual data querying, the executable instructions causing a machine to:

determine an ontology of a base word in a source language;

generate a set of words based on the ontology of the base word;

translate at least a subset of the set of words into a target language; and

translate the at least a subset of the set of words from the target language into the source language of the base word.

19. The article of claim 18 wherein the executable instructions further comprises executable instructions causing a machine to receive the base word from a user.

20. The article of claim 18 wherein the executable instructions causing the machine to determine the word ontology of the base word comprises executable instructions causing a machine to determine a word ontology based on a part of speech.

21. The article of claim 20 wherein the instructions causing the machine to determine a word ontology based on a part of speech comprises circuitry to determine a word ontology of the word based on a part of speech selected by a user.

22. The article of claim 18 wherein the instructions causing the machine to generate a set of words representing the word ontology of the based word comprises instructions causing a machine to generate a set of words selected from the group consisting of homonyms, synonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms.

23. The article of claim 22 wherein the executable instructions causing the machine to translate the at least a subset of the set of words comprises instructions causing a machine to translate a set of words selected by a user.

24. The article of claim 23 wherein the executable instructions further comprises instructions causing a machine to receive selections from a user from the at least a subset of the set of words.

25. The article of claim 24 wherein the executable instructions further comprises instructions causing a machine to retrieve data from an indexed database based on the selections from the user.

26. A system for multilingual data query, comprising:

an indexed database;

a user interface configured to receive a query containing a base word in a source language selected by a user;

a word ontology system configured to generate a set of words based on the base word;

a translator configured to generate a translation of the set of word into a target language and to translate the set of words from the target language to the source language; and

a processor coupled to the word ontology system, the user interface, the indexed database and the translator, the processor configured to receive selected words from the set of words from the user interface to search in the indexed database.

27. The system of claim 26 further comprising:

a data store;

a transcoder coupled to the data store; and

a lexer coupled to the indexed database and the transcoder,

wherein the data store, the transcoder and the lexer are configured to populate the indexed data base.

28. The system of claim 27 further comprising a morphological analyzer coupled to the lexer.

29. The system of claim 26 wherein the lexer is a lexer of the target language

30. The system of claim 26 wherein the lexer is a lexer of the source language.