DISAMBIGUATION OF TERM MEANING

Patent №

US 8,250,071

Granted

2012-08-21

Filed 2010

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12826980

A meaning of a term is determined using the contents of a corpus of books through use of metadata about the books within the corpus, terms in the same work which provide context, and so forth. Users may query to determine the meaning of a term. Users may also build vocabulary skills by testing as well. A changing meaning of a term over time may be determined and utilized as well. Searches are facilitated by the enhanced ability to determine meaning of the terms, particularly in context. Feedback from the searches may also be used to refine future searches.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware0.90
Knowledge representation0.53
Speech0.10
Planning0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 246160127

Assignors

KILLALEA, TOM, HAMAKER, JANNA

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

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