Appeal No. 2005-0274
Application No. 09/738,319
to generate a corresponding second representation for each of the input strings, the
skeletising step replacing the linguistic information with abstract variables in each of the
second representations; and storing the processed documents in a database (column 6,
lines 25-32 and element 60 in Figure 1), which corresponds to storing the second
representation as normalized representations of the input strings [see page 4 of the
answer].
Appellants argue that Liddy fails to disclose the claimed “skeletising” step
wherein each of the first representations generates a corresponding second
representation for each of the input strings, and wherein this step replaces the linguistic
information with abstract variables in each of the second representations.
The examiner counters that Liddy does disclose the replacement of linguistic
information with other information by indicating, in Figure 2, a series of processing steps
starting with the input of linguistic information and ending with the generation of the
monolingual concept vector MCVG where the final representation is used for searches
(answer-page 11).
With regard to appellants’ argument that Liddy does not disclose replacing
linguistic information with an “abstract variable,” the examiner asserts that it was “well
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