User Interface for Facts Query Engine with Snippets from Information Sources that Include Query Terms and Answer Terms
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1. A method for responding to a factual query, comprising:
- receiving a user-formulated factual query, the factual query including one or more query terms;
identifying, from a fact repository, an answer to the factual query, the answer including one or more factual answer terms, wherein the fact repository includes a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects including a respective object having a list of a plurality of sources of the answer;
searching a document database distinct from the fact repository to identify documents matching the user formulated factual query; and
generating a response including both factual information that answers the factual query, wherein the factual information is from the fact repository, and information, distinct from the factual information, identifying at least a subset of the documents identified from the document database.
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Abstract
A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the source documents from which the fact answer to a fact query was extracted. The snippets include the terms of the fact query and terms of the answer. The snippets may be displayed along with Uniform Resource Locators (URL'"'"'s) of the source documents.
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1. A method for responding to a factual query, comprising:
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receiving a user-formulated factual query, the factual query including one or more query terms; identifying, from a fact repository, an answer to the factual query, the answer including one or more factual answer terms, wherein the fact repository includes a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects including a respective object having a list of a plurality of sources of the answer; searching a document database distinct from the fact repository to identify documents matching the user formulated factual query; and generating a response including both factual information that answers the factual query, wherein the factual information is from the fact repository, and information, distinct from the factual information, identifying at least a subset of the documents identified from the document database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system, for responding to a factual query, comprising:
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one or more central processing units for executing programs; memory storing one or more programs be executed by the one or more central processing units; the one or more programs comprising instructions for; receiving a user-formulated factual query, the factual query including one or more query terms; identifying, from a fact repository, an answer to the factual query, the answer including one or more factual answer terms, wherein the fact repository includes a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects including a respective object having a list of a plurality of sources of the answer; searching a document database distinct from the fact repository to identify documents matching the user formulated factual query; and generating a response including both factual information that answers the factual query, wherein the factual information is from the fact repository, and information, distinct from the factual information, identifying at least a subset of the documents identified from the document database. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured for execution by a computer, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
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receiving a user-formulated factual query, the factual query including one or more query terms; identifying, from a fact repository, an answer to the factual query, the answer including one or more factual answer terms, wherein the fact repository includes a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects including a respective object having a list of a plurality of sources of the answer; searching a document database distinct from the fact repository to identify documents matching the user formulated factual query; and generating a response including both factual information that answers the factual query, wherein the factual information is from the fact repository, and information, distinct from the factual information, identifying at least a subset of the documents identified from the document database. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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