PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO A VAGUE TERM IN A MESSAGE

Patent №

US 9,548,951

Granted

2017-01-17

Filed 2013

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

3

nlp · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14145017

Methods and apparatus related to providing additional information related to a vague term in a message. For example, in some implementations, one or more messages sent by a sender and received by one or more recipients may be identified, a vague term in the message may be identified, a user-restricted database may be identified that is associated with the sender or a recipient, and additional information related to the vague term may be determined from the user-restricted database. A vague term is a term which may have multiple meanings and that can be clarified with additional information. In some implementations, user-restricted databases may include additional information that is associated with the user that may be utilized to replace the vague term with a clarified term. In some implementations, a user-restricted database may be utilized to identify additional information in another database that may be utilized to clarify the vague term.

Natural languageKnowledge representationPlanningH04L 51/063G06F 16/24578G06F 16/68G06F 16/9535G06F 40/232H04L 51/216H04L 51/52G06Q 30/02+2 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Planning0.97
Evolutionary computation0.17
Speech0.03
AI hardware0.02
Machine learning0.01
Vision0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 320530442

Assignors

TOMKINS, ANDREW, RAVIKUMAR, SHANMUGASUNDARAM, AGARWAL, SHALINI, YANG, MYLINH, PANG, BO, LI, MARK YINAN

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

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