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DOLAN WILLIAM B
US59 patents
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MICROSOFT CORP
30 patentsUS7013264B2Mar 14, 2006
System and method for matching a textual input to a lexical knowledge based and for utilizing results of that match
MICROSOFT CORP142 citations99
US6871174B1Mar 22, 2005
System and method for matching a textual input to a lexical knowledge base and for utilizing results of that match
MICROSOFT CORP147 citations99
US6295529B1Sep 25, 2001
Method and apparatus for indentifying clauses having predetermined characteristics indicative of usefulness in determining relationships between different texts
MICROSOFT CORP159 citations99
US6901402B1May 31, 2005
System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents
MICROSOFT CORP164 citations98
US6246977B1Jun 12, 2001
Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text and based on constrained expansion of query words
MICROSOFT CORP291 citations98
US6161084ADec 12, 2000
Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text by identifying hypernyms and indexing multiple tokenized semantic structures to a same passage of text
MICROSOFT CORP285 citations98
US6098033AAug 1, 2000
Determining similarity between words
MICROSOFT CORP146 citations98
US6076051AJun 13, 2000
Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text
MICROSOFT CORP494 citations98
US7383169B1Jun 3, 2008
Method and system for compiling a lexical knowledge base
MICROSOFT CORP63 citations97
US6901399B1May 31, 2005
System for processing textual inputs using natural language processing techniques
MICROSOFT CORP524 citations97
US6363374B1Mar 26, 2002
Text proximity filtering in search systems using same sentence restrictions
MICROSOFT CORP80 citations97
US5933822AAug 3, 1999
Apparatus and methods for an information retrieval system that employs natural language processing of search results to improve overall precision
MICROSOFT CORP1,148 citations97
US5924108AJul 13, 1999
Document summarizer for word processors
MICROSOFT CORP155 citations97
US7269594B2Sep 11, 2007
System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents
MICROSOFT CORP55 citations96
US7051024B2May 23, 2006
Document summarizer for word processors
MICROSOFT CORP65 citations96
US6349316B2Feb 19, 2002
Document summarizer for word processors
MICROSOFT CORP106 citations96
US6253170B1Jun 26, 2001
Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words in dictionary representations of a lexical knowledge base in computer memory
MICROSOFT CORP52 citations96
US6070134AMay 30, 2000
Identifying salient semantic relation paths between two words
MICROSOFT CORP68 citations96
US7050964B2May 23, 2006
Scaleable machine translation system
MICROSOFT CORP125 citations95
US7774193B2Aug 10, 2010
Proofing of word collocation errors based on a comparison with collocations in a corpus
MICROSOFT CORP23 citations93
US6081775AJun 27, 2000
Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words in dictionaries
MICROSOFT CORP32 citations93
US6078878AJun 20, 2000
Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words
MICROSOFT CORP19 citations93
US7290005B2Oct 30, 2007
System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents
MICROSOFT CORP14 citations92
US7412385B2Aug 12, 2008
System for identifying paraphrases using machine translation
MICROSOFT CORP42 citations91
US7536397B2May 19, 2009
System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents
MICROSOFT CORP8 citations84
US7299238B2Nov 20, 2007
System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents
MICROSOFT CORP4 citations73
US7290004B2Oct 30, 2007
System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents
MICROSOFT CORP3 citations73
US7206787B2Apr 17, 2007
System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents
MICROSOFT CORP7 citations73
US7206735B2Apr 17, 2007
Scaleable machine translation
MICROSOFT CORP7 citations68
US9116880B2Aug 25, 2015
Generating stimuli for use in soliciting grounded linguistic information
MICROSOFT CORP5 citations65
ENGELHARD CORP
7 patentsUS6497750B2Dec 24, 2002
Pressure swing adsorption process
ENGELHARD CORP106 citations98
US6444012B1Sep 3, 2002
Selective removal of nitrogen from natural gas by pressure swing adsorption
ENGELHARD CORP116 citations97
US6197092B1Mar 6, 2001
Selective removal of nitrogen from natural gas by pressure swing adsorption
ENGELHARD CORP56 citations96
US6521020B2Feb 18, 2003
Claus feed gas hydrocarbon removal
ENGELHARD CORP17 citations92
US6508863B1Jan 21, 2003
Claus feed gas hydrocarbon removal
ENGELHARD CORP20 citations92
US6387159B1May 14, 2002
Claus feed gas hydrocarbon removal
ENGELHARD CORP25 citations92
US6315817B1Nov 13, 2001
Selective removal of nitrogen from natural gas by pressure swing adsorption
ENGELHARD CORP38 citations92
UOP LLC
5 patentsUS6293998B1Sep 25, 2001
Apparatus for use in pressure and temperature swing adsorption processes
UOP LLC93 citations98
US6281405B1Aug 28, 2001
Alkylation process using membrane for recovery of halides
UOP LLC42 citations96
US6080226AJun 27, 2000
Nitrous oxide purification by pressure swing adsorption
UOP LLC73 citations94
US6380452B1Apr 30, 2002
Isomerization process using membrane for recovery of halides
UOP LLC18 citations92
US6248931B1Jun 19, 2001
Membrane process for the recovery of halides from hydrocarbon-containing streams
UOP LLC7 citations74
UOP INC
3 patentsBASF CORP
2 patentsGAMON MICHAEL
1 patentDOLAN WILLIAM B
1 patentGAO JIANFENG
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