Appeal No. 2005-0274
Application No. 09/738,319
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for normalizing input strings, the method comprising the
steps of:
(a) receiving the input strings;
(b) linguistically analyzing the input strings to generate a first
representation of each of the input strings; each of the first representations
including linguistic information;
(c) skeletising each of the first representations to generate a
corresponding second representation for each of the input strings; said
skeletising step replacing the linguistic information with abstract variables
in each of the second representations; and
(d) storing the second representation as normalized
representations of the input strings.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Liddy et al. (Liddy) 6,006,221 Dec. 21, 1999
Collins, “Discriminative Reranking for Natural Language Parsing”, Proc.
17th International Conf. on Machine Learning, pp. 175-182 (July 2000).
Claims 1-8, 10-18 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §102 (e) as anticipated
by Liddy.
Claim 19 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103 as unpatentable over Liddy in
view of Collins.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the respective positions of
appellants and the examiner.
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