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Methods and apparatus for query formulation

  • US 9,075,799 B1
  • Filed: 10/24/2011
  • Issued: 07/07/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for query formulation, comprising:

  • searching, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, a corpus, to produce a first collection of records, by testing for appearances of a lexical unit that can be indicative of an object-of-interest;

    identifying, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, a first collection of role values corresponding to the first collection of records;

    performing, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, frequency analysis of sets of one or more lexical units, contained within the first collection of role values, to produce a first candidate list of exclude terms; and

    wherein each role value is part of a frame instance, each instance produced by application of a frame extraction rule to a record of the corpus.

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