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Method and apparatus for frame-based search

  • US 9,047,285 B1
  • Filed: 07/21/2008
  • Issued: 06/02/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for frame-based search to identify content of interest, comprising the following steps:

  • determining, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, a set of logical forms, each logical form representative of a unit of natural language discourse in a first source of computer-accessible content, wherein each logical form, of the set of logical forms, is arranged as a tree, at least some trees including a logical verb root, a logical subject, and a logical object;

    determining, for each logical form of the set of logical forms, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, whether a first frame extraction rule is satisfied by a logical form and, if a frame extraction rule is satisfied, producing a first instance of a first frame;

    determining, for each unit of natural language discourse that invokes the first frame, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, a locality that includes the unit of natural language discourse;

    including, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, each locality as a record of a first database; and

    searching, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, the first database, to identify a first set of records, by identifying those records that contain at least one match to a first keyword query.

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