METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING EQUIVALENT DESCRIPTIONS FOR AN INFORMATION NEED

Patent №

US 6,941,293

Granted

2005-09-06

Filed 2002

Owner

GOOGLE, INC.

AI components

2

ml · nlp

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10062110

Methods and apparatus determine equivalent descriptions for an information need. In one implementation, if adjacent entries in a query log contain common terms, the uncommon terms are identified as a candidate pair. The candidate pairs are assigned a score based on their frequency of occurrence, and pairs having a score exceeding a defined threshold are determined to be synonyms.

Machine learningNatural languageG06F 16/951G06F 16/36Y10S 707/99932Y10S 707/99933Y10S 707/99934Y10S 707/99935

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Planning0.47
Knowledge representation0.24
AI hardware0.16
Speech0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE, INC.

assignment · 125550150

Assignors

DEAN, JEFFREY A., HARIK, GEORGES, GOMES, BENEDICT, SHAZEER, NOAM

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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