Abstract:
A self-adjusting slide assembly is provided for mounting a weight on gear switch to an aircraft. The slide assembly is particularly adapted for mounting on a skid equipped helicopter for responding to vertical oscillatory deflection of a cross tube of the skid landing gear. A mounting bracket is attached to the underside of the helicopter for supporting a back plate and a pair of clamp plates. A C-shaped slide member has a flange mounted between the back plate and clamp plates so as to slide vertically. Take-off and landing stresses cause the cross tube to exhibit vertical oscillatory deflection between an upper arm and a lower arm of the slide member. A microswitch mounted on the lower arm is actuated when the cross tube contacts a bottom bumper on the lower arm while the helicopter is fully on skid gear. Any deviation of the cross tube beyond its normal limits of deflection causes the upper and lower arms of the slide member to move with respect to the mounting bracket to establish new limits for cross tube oscillatory deflection. Thus, the microswitch maintains approximately the same relative position with respect to the mean position of the cross tube oscillatory deflection regardless of any permanent deformation of the cross tube resulting from harder than normal landings.
Abstract:
Embodiment described herein are directed to an enhanced search engine with multiple feedback loops for providing optimal search results that are responsive a user's search query. The user's search query is parsed, and based on the underlying terms, different linguistic models and refinement techniques generate alternative candidate search queries that may yield better results. Searches are performed for the original search query and the candidate search queries, and different scores are used to select the best search results to present to the user. Results making it onto the list, as well as the underlying candidate search query, linguistic model, or refinement technique for generating that search query, will have their corresponding scores updated to reflect their success of generating a search result. Scores are stored and used by future searches to come up with better results.
Abstract:
A task framework and a semantic reasoning engine are combined to provide a scalable mechanism for dealing with extremely large numbers of widgets, allowing users to both find a widget and automatically fill-in whatever functionality is available on the widget. Calling applications are employed to obtain task information from each widget. The calling application also receives user queries that can be resolved by a widget. A task reasoning process based on an adaptive semantic reasoning engine utilizes the task information to select a widget best suited to respond to a user's query. The task reasoning process can also be employed to determine “best-guess” slot filling of the selected widget. The calling application can then invoke the selected widget and, if available, fill appropriate slots with information to facilitate user interaction with the selected widget. Instances can be client- and/or server-side based.
Abstract:
A task system and method are provided. The system provides an automated approach for task creation, maintenance and/or execution. The system includes a browser that receives search results and at least one task associated with a query from a search engine. The system further includes a browser helper object that binds to the browser at runtime. The browser helper object provides information associated with a user's action with respect to the search results and/or at least one task. The information can be employed as feedback to update model(s) (e.g., query classification model(s) and/or slot-filling model(s)) of a semantic reasoning component that retrieves task based, at least in part, upon user query(ies).
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods and computer storage media for providing Structured Computations Optimized for Parallel Execution (SCOPE) that facilitate analysis of a large-scale dataset utilizing row data of those data sets. SCOPE includes, among other features, an extract command for extracting data bytes from a data stream and structuring the data bytes as data rows having strictly defined columns. SCOPE also includes a process command and a reduce command that identify data rows as inputs. The reduce command also identifies a reduce key that facilitates the reduction based on the reduce key. SCOPE additionally includes a combine command that identifies two data row sets that are to be combined based on an identified joint condition. Additionally, SCOPE includes a select command that leverages SQL and C# languages to create an expressive script that is capable of analyzing large-scale data sets in a parallel computing environment.
Abstract:
Word-breaking of a query from a client machine in a client-server environment includes determining whether to use a first word breaking module operable with a client machine in the client-server environment and/or a second word breaking module operable with a server in the client-server environment.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for identifying a semantic structure from an input text forms at least two candidate semantic structures. A semantic score is determined for each candidate semantic structure based on the likelihood of the semantic structure. A syntactic score is also determined for each semantic structure based on the position of a word in the text and the position in the semantic structure of a semantic entity formed from the word. The syntactic score and the semantic score are combined to select a semantic structure for at least a portion of the text. In many embodiments, the semantic structure is built incrementally by building and scoring candidate structures for a portion of the text, pruning low scoring candidates, and adding additional semantic elements to the retained candidates.
Abstract:
A graphical application development tool for developing parallel computation applications. The tool facilitates insertion of computational elements by a drag-and-drop operation onto a canvas area for creating a computational graph. The graphical application tool reduces the barriers to the development of parallel computation applications by entry-level developers, for example, by allowing these users to write applications by using a graphical tool, thereby avoiding complexities of having to write well-formed code and learning a new language. The tool includes built-in functionality that allows the developer to write arbitrary code (e.g., C#) to perform various functions on massive amounts of data.
Abstract:
Methods of ranking documents on a network using an incrementally-updatable system are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method of ranking documents on a network using an incrementally-updatable system are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application module, wherein the at least one application module comprises application code for performing methods of ranking documents on a network using an incrementally-updatable system are disclosed.
Abstract:
A system for developing semantic schema for natural language processing has a semantic runtime engine and a semantic authoring tool. The semantic runtime engine is adapted to map a natural language input to a semantic schema and to return the mapped results to an application domain. The semantic authoring tool is adapted to receive user input for defining the semantic schema and to interact with the semantic runtime engine to test the semantic schema against a query.