User interface system for permitting natural language interaction with an information retrieval system
Patent 4931935 Issued on June 5, 1990. Estimated Expiration Date: 
July 1, 2008. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
July 1, 2008. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesElectronic dictionary and language interpreter with auto-search key for deriving a full-length word and its associated translation word based on a partial word entered Method for automatically registering frequently used phrases Patent #: 4744050 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 214483 filed on 07/01/1988US Classes:704/8Multilingual or national language supportExaminersPrimary: Fleming, Michael R.Assistant: Hayes, Gail O. Attorney, Agent or FirmForeign Patent References
International ClassG06F 015/38Foreign Application Priority Data1987-07-03 JPAbstractA user interface system for information retrieval which includes apparatus for sequentially effecting syntactic and semantic analysis, every time a retrieval request sentence is inputted on words and clauses of the request sentence, apparatus inputted for creating partial syntactic and semantic expressions from successively obtained results of the syntactic and semantic analysis, apparatus for predicting words or clauses which are to be next inputted as the retrieval request sentence by making use of a semantic relation between the syntactic and semantic expression and an associated task, apparatus for displaying candidates for the predicted clauses, and apparatus for taking in selected clauses as subsequent clauses of the retrieval request sentence by and permitting a user to select at least one of the displayed candidates.Other References
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