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Natural language processing system and method for query interpretation

Natural language query interpretation that converts user intent into retrieval-ready representations is now available without IBM licensing.

What it is

The system parses a user’s text to extract syntactic and semantic structure, then transforms the query into a representation usable for retrieval or downstream task execution. Its core value is turning unstructured language into structured representations that can drive search and task workflows at runtime. Before expiration, implementations of this specific query-interpretation pipeline required licensing from IBM.

What you could build

Build enterprise semantic search and AI assistant backends that map user questions into retrieval-ready query representations without per-seat IP fees.

Patent number
7181219B2
Expiration
Invalid Da
Assignee
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors
John F. Smith, others

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