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William B. Dolan
Also filed as: DOLAN WILLIAM · DOLAN WILLIAM B · DOLAN WILLIAM BRENNAN
52 granted patents·18 pending applications·5,136 citations·filing 1994–2025
99Inventor score
Files withMICROSOFT CORP41MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC22BROCKETT CHRISTOPHER JOHN2DOLAN WILLIAM B2DOLAN WILLIAM1
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70 records- 0198US6076051AInformation retrieval utilizing semantic representation of textMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 13, 2000·494 cites·23 claims
- 0297US8972240B2User-modifiable word lattice display for editing documents and search queriesBROCKETT CHRISTOPHER JOHN·Filed 2011·Granted Mar 3, 2015·251 cites·20 claims
- 0397US7752034B2Writing assistance using machine translation techniquesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 6, 2010·81 cites·18 claims
- 0497US7013264B2System and method for matching a textual input to a lexical knowledge based and for utilizing results of that matchMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 14, 2006·142 cites·53 claims
- 0597US6901399B1System for processing textual inputs using natural language processing techniquesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted May 31, 2005·524 cites·76 claims
- 0697US6871174B1System and method for matching a textual input to a lexical knowledge base and for utilizing results of that matchMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 22, 2005·147 cites·98 claims
- 0797US6246977B1Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text and based on constrained expansion of query wordsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 12, 2001·291 cites·8 claims
- 0897US6161084AInformation retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text by identifying hypernyms and indexing multiple tokenized semantic structures to a same passage of textMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 12, 2000·285 cites·18 claims
- 0997US5933822AApparatus and methods for an information retrieval system that employs natural language processing of search results to improve overall precisionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 3, 1999·1.1k cites·123 claims
- 1096US6901402B1System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted May 31, 2005·164 cites·39 claims
- 1195US11741306B2Controllable grounded text generationMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 29, 2023·10 cites·20 claims
- 1294US7584092B2Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereofMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 1, 2009·130 cites·17 claims
- 1393US8170868B2Extracting lexical features for classifying native and non-native language usage styleGAMON MICHAEL·Filed 2006·Granted May 1, 2012·43 cites·20 claims
- 1493US7908132B2Writing assistance using machine translation techniquesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 15, 2011·40 cites·17 claims
- 1592US7050964B2Scaleable machine translation systemMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted May 23, 2006·125 cites·34 claims
- 1691US12105747B2Automatic content generationMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Oct 1, 2024·4 cites·20 claims
- 1791US10091140B2Context-sensitive generation of conversational responsesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 2, 2018·20 cites·20 claims
- 1891US7269594B2System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 11, 2007·55 cites·8 claims
- 1990US7774193B2Proofing of word collocation errors based on a comparison with collocations in a corpusMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 10, 2010·23 cites·17 claims
- 2090US7051024B2Document summarizer for word processorsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted May 23, 2006·65 cites·8 claims
- 2190US6295529B1Method and apparatus for indentifying clauses having predetermined characteristics indicative of usefulness in determining relationships between different textsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Sep 25, 2001·159 cites·27 claims
- 2289US11429779B2Method and system for intelligently suggesting paraphrasesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 30, 2022·9 cites·20 claims
- 2389US5924108ADocument summarizer for word processorsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Jul 13, 1999·155 cites·48 claims
- 2488US6098033ADetermining similarity between wordsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 1, 2000·146 cites·27 claims
- 2587US7412385B2System for identifying paraphrases using machine translationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 12, 2008·42 cites·7 claims
- 2686US7546235B2Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereofMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 9, 2009·52 cites·26 claims
- 2785US6349316B2Document summarizer for word processorsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 19, 2002·106 cites·8 claims
- 2883US7991609B2Web-based proofing and usage guidanceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 2, 2011·16 cites·18 claims
- 2982US9967211B2Metric for automatic assessment of conversational responsesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted May 8, 2018·5 cites·20 claims
- 3080US9754585B2Crowdsourced, grounded language for intent modeling in conversational interfacesBROCKETT CHRISTOPHER JOHN·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 5, 2017·12 cites·20 claims
- 3179US2025036881A1Grounded text generationMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3277US6363374B1Text proximity filtering in search systems using same sentence restrictionsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 26, 2002·80 cites·24 claims
- 3376US12131123B2Grounded text generationMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2023·Granted Oct 29, 2024·0 cites·18 claims
- 3474US9116880B2Generating stimuli for use in soliciting grounded linguistic informationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 25, 2015·5 cites·25 claims
- 3574US7383169B1Method and system for compiling a lexical knowledge baseMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1994·Granted Jun 3, 2008·63 cites·30 claims
- 3674US6253170B1Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words in dictionary representations of a lexical knowledge base in computer memoryMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 26, 2001·52 cites·6 claims
- 3773US7299238B2System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 20, 2007·4 cites·20 claims
- 3873US6070134AIdentifying salient semantic relation paths between two wordsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted May 30, 2000·68 cites·31 claims
- 3972US8078451B2Interface and methods for collecting aligned editorial corrections into a databaseDOLAN WILLIAM B·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 13, 2011·8 cites·19 claims
- 4072US7206735B2Scaleable machine translationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 17, 2007·7 cites·20 claims
- 4172US2025284876A1Automatic document sketchingMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4271US9501759B2Search query and document-related data translationGAO JIANFENG·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 22, 2016·3 cites·20 claims
- 4370US7290005B2System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 30, 2007·14 cites·2 claims
- 4468US11126794B2Targeted rewritesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 21, 2021·1 cites·16 claims
- 4567US7552046B2Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereofMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 23, 2009·13 cites·15 claims
- 4666US10536402B2Context-sensitive generation of conversational responsesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Jan 14, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 4765US12282727B2Automatic document sketchingMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Apr 22, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 4865US8244521B2Paraphrasing the web by search-based data collectionDOLAN WILLIAM·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 14, 2012·4 cites·20 claims
- 4964US6081775ABootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words in dictionariesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 27, 2000·32 cites·23 claims
- 5064US2025360418A1Importing agent personalization data to instantiate a personalized agent in a user game sessionMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
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