Appeal No. 2003-0750
Application 09/310,650
contained in a knowledge database. The knowledge database
represents a network of hierarchically arranged semantical units
which are similar across hierarchies. The input string is
segmented into segments which are combined with semantical units
from the knowledge database to generate a resulting semantic
network of hierarchically arranged semantical units which are
similar across hierarchies.
Claim 56 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
56. A method of processing textual information, comprising
the steps of:
segmenting an input string which includes textual
information into segments; and
combining the segments with semantical units from a
knowledge database representing a network of hierarchically
arranged semantical units which are similar across hierarchies,
the combining step generating a resulting semantic network of
hierarchically arranged semantical units which are similar across
hierarchies.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Krawchuk et al. (Krawchuk) 5,418,942 May 23, 1995
Nagao et al. (Nagao) 5,424,947 Jun. 13, 1995
Wical 6,038,560 Mar. 14, 2000
(filed May 21, 1997)
Suda et al. (Suda) 6,052,656 Apr. 18, 2000
(filed Jun. 21, 1995)
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