Inventors:
Brant Wenegrat - Palo Alto CA, US
David DeGraaff - Lafayette CA, US
Jeffrey Davitz - San Ramon CA, US
Mariya Orshansky - Oakland CA, US
Jiye Yu - Walnut Creek CA, US
International Classification:
G06F007/00
Abstract:
The methods and systems of the invention involve the generation and use of a cross-linked keyphrase ontology database. The database is generated by defining at least one keyphrase, representing the keyphrase by a keyphrase node in an ontology, cross-linking the keyphrase node to a second keyphrase node, and then repeating the preceding steps for each keyphrase defined. A retrievable object can be indexed in a cross-linked keyphrase ontology database by representing the retrievable object by an object node in an ontology and then cross-linking the object node to a keyphrase node, where the keyphrase node represents a keyphrase in a second ontology and the keyphrase is related to the retrievable object. The cross-linked keyphrase ontology database can be searched by parsing a natural language statement into a structured representation and searching the cross-linked keyphrase ontology database. The cross-linked ontology database can be used for disambiguating syntactically ambiguous natural language statements.