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Method and apparatus for concept-based classification of natural language discourse

  • US 9,934,285 B1
  • Filed: 06/23/2015
  • Issued: 04/03/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for assigning a score for ranking a record, given the record and a query, comprising:

  • obtaining, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, the record by searching with the query a database organized according to at least a first pinnacle concept, where identification of a concept as the first pinnacle concept indicates that the concept is not a plains concept;

    identifying, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, a first query term of the query;

    identifying, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, the first pinnacle concept as associated with the first query term;

    identifying, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, a first set of one or more sub-units of the record, wherein each sub-unit contains at least one occurrence of the first query term;

    determining, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, for each sub-unit of the first set of sub-units, whether the first pinnacle concept is asserted; and

    assigning, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, a first score to the first query term that is larger when the first pinnacle concept is asserted by at least one sub-unit of the first set of sub-units than when the first pinnacle concept is not asserted.

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