An improved human user computer interface system, wherein a user characteristic or set of
characteristics, such as demographic profile or societal “role”, is employed to define a scope …

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The most preferred embodiment of the present invention is a computer-based decision
Support System that includes three main components: a database mining engine (DME); an …

An enhanced natural language information retrieval technique tokenizes an incoming query,
comparing the tokenized representation against a collection of query templates. Query …

BACKGROUND The invention relates generally to query processing for computer systems
and, more particularly but not by way of limitation, to processing and responding to natural …

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The present invention provides a method and apparatus for linking real-time data with
audiovisual content to enable a user to make Selections, manipulate data, and to execute …

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