Inventor

BRILL ERIC D

US41 patents

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BRILL ERIC D

MICROSOFT CORP

Visual and multi-dimensional search

Visual and multi-dimensional search

Cost-benefit approach to automatically composing answers to questions by extracting information from large unstructured corpora

Systems and methods for improved spell checking

Linguistic disambiguation system and method using string-based pattern training to learn to resolve ambiguity sites

Using popularity data for ranking

Systems and methods that rank search results

Utilizing information redundancy to improve text searches

Arbitration of specialized content using search results

Table querying

Associating information with an electronic document

Systems and methods for client-based web crawling

Automated error checking system and method

User intent discovery

Utilizing information redundancy to improve text searches

Automated error checking system and method

Method and apparatus for unsupervised training of natural language processing units

Linguistic disambiguation system and method using string-based pattern training to learn to resolve ambiguity sites

Entity-specific search model

Cost-benefit approach to automatically composing answers to questions by extracting information from large unstructured corpora

Query graphs indicating related queries

Application programming interface for text mining and search

User-controlled profile sharing

Cost-benefit approach to automatically composing answers to questions by extracting information from large unstructured corpora

Spelling correction system and method for phrasal strings using dictionary looping

Question answering over structured content on the web

Building and using subwebs for focused search

Reducing human overhead in text categorization

Systems and methods that employ a distributional analysis on a query log to improve search results

Content presentation based on user preferences

Linguistic disambiguation system and method using string-based pattern training learn to resolve ambiguity sites

Context based search and document retrieval

Using connectivity distance for relevance feedback in search

Method and apparatus for unsupervised training of natural language processing units

Game-powered search engine

Entity-specific tuned searching

BRILL ERIC D

Spell checker with arbitrary length string-to-string transformations to improve noisy channel spelling correction

Architecture for generating responses to search engine queries

Systems and methods to tune a general-purpose search engine for a search entry point

RICHARDSON MATTHEW

Balanced routing of questions to experts

FLAKE GARY W

Content presentation based on user preferences