System and method for the transformation and canonicalization of semantically structured data

• US 8,868,589 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2013
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kominek, John Michael, Carriere, Steven Jeromy, Woods, Steven Gregory
• Primary Examiner(s): Woo, Isaac M
• Application Number:
  US13/854,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20140052442A1
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 707600-899
• US Class Current: 707/761
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1815 Semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A method of transforming and canonicalizing semantically structured data includes obtaining data from a network of computers, applying text patterns to the obtained data and placing the data in a first data file, providing a second data file containing the obtained data in a uniform format, and generating interface specific sentences from the data in the second data file.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a method comprising;

transforming data into a uniform format that is compatible with a plurality of interfaces by transforming the data into a normalized and tagged format and into a searchable and mashed format;

saving the transformed data to a file by saving the data, the transformed data in the normalized and tagged format, and the transformed data in the searchable and mashed format in the file; and

generating one or more grammatical phrases in an interface-specific format from the transformed data.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein saving the transformed data further comprises saving the data in a first column of a lexical table, saving the transformed data in the normalized and tagged format in a second column of the lexical table, and saving the transformed data in the searchable and mashed format in a third column of the lexical table.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the generating the one or more grammatical phrases comprises generating the one or more grammatical phrases based on at least one of:

text patterns, lexical transform tables, attribute phrase grammars, or term arrangement rules.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a method further comprising prior to the transforming, receiving the data from one or more Internet sources.

5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a method further comprising generating a traffic report describing a traffic condition using the one or more grammatical phrases.

6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a method further comprising generating a voice command for input into a communication portal using the one or more grammatical phrases.

7. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a method further comprising generating a search query for searching a database using the one or more grammatical phrases.

8. A computer-implemented method comprising:

transforming data into a uniform format that is compatible with a plurality of interfaces by transforming the data into a normalized and tagged format and into a searchable and mashed format;

saving the transformed data to a file by saving the data, the transformed data in the normalized and tagged format, and the transformed data in the searchable and mashed format in the file;

generating one or more grammatical phrases in an interface-specific format from the transformed data.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein saving the transformed data further comprises saving the data in a first column of a lexical table, saving the transformed data in the normalized and tagged format in a second column of the lexical table, and saving the transformed data in the searchable and mashed format into a third column of the lexical table.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the generating the one or more grammatical phrases comprises generating the one or more grammatical phrases based on at least one of:

text patterns, lexical transform tables, attribute phrase grammars, or term arrangement rules.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein prior to the transforming, the method further comprises receiving the data from one or more Internet sources.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising generating a traffic report describing a traffic condition using the one or more grammatical phrases.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising generating a voice command for input into a communication portal using the one or more grammatical phrases.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising generating a search query for searching a database using the one or more grammatical phrases.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage memory comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

transforming data into a uniform format that is compatible with a plurality of interfaces by transforming the data into a normalized and tagged format and into a searchable and mashed format;

saving the transformed data to a file by saving the data, the transformed data in the normalized and tagged format, and the transformed data in the searchable and mashed format in the file; and

generating one or more grammatical phrases in an interface-specific format from the transformed data.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage memory of claim 15, wherein the generating the one or more grammatical phrases comprises generating the one or more grammatical phrases based on at least one of:

text patterns, lexical transform tables, attribute phrase grammars, or term arrangement rules.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage memory of claim 15, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a method further comprising generating a traffic report describing a traffic condition using the one or more grammatical phrases.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage memory of claim 15, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a method further comprising generating a voice command for input into a communication portal using the one or more grammatical phrases.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage memory of claim 15, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a method further comprising generating a search query for searching a database using the one or more grammatical phrases.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage memory of claim 15, wherein saving the transformed data further comprises saving the data in a first column of a lexical table, saving the transformed data in the normalized and tagged format in a second column of the lexical table, and saving the transformed data in the searchable and mashed format in a third column of the lexical table.