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CONSTRUCTION, MANIPULATION, AND COMPARISON OF A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SEMANTIC SPACE

  • US 20080052283A1
  • Filed: 10/30/2007
  • Published: 02/28/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for a user of a computer system to find a context to aid in answering a question, the method comprising:

  • parsing the question into one or more parsed concepts;

    establishing one or more chains in a directed set, wherein each chain is rooted at a maximal element in the directed set and extends to a concept in the directed set;

    creating a distance vector for the one or more parsed concepts in the directed set, wherein each distance vector includes as its components the measure of how concretely the concept is represented in each chain; and

    measuring a distance between the distance vectors for each pair of parsed concepts; and

    using the distances between the one or more parsed concepts to establish a context for the question.

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