Providing additional information related to a vague term in a message

摘要

Methods and apparatus related to providing additional information related to a vague term in a message. For example, in some implementations, one or more messages sent by a sender and received by one or more recipients may be identified, a vague term in the message may be identified, a user-restricted database may be identified that is associated with the sender or a recipient, and additional information related to the vague term may be determined from the user-restricted database. A vague term is a term which may have multiple meanings and that can be clarified with additional information. In some implementations, user-restricted databases may include additional information that is associated with the user that may be utilized to replace the vague term with a clarified term. In some implementations, a user-restricted database may be utilized to identify additional information in another database that may be utilized to clarify the vague term.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
identifying a message that is associated with two or more users, wherein the users include a sender and one or more recipients, and wherein the message includes one or more terms; determining a vague term of the terms, wherein the vague term includes a plurality of consecutive words, the consecutive words including at least a word and an additional word; determining that at least the word of the vague term is a reference to a given user of the users, the given user being the sender or one of the recipients; identifying, based on determining that the word is a reference to the given user, a user-restricted database associated with the given user, wherein the user-restricted database includes content personal to the given user, and wherein access to the user-restricted database is limitable by the given user; determining, based on the user-restricted database, additional information that is related to the vague term,
wherein the user-restricted database is used in determining the additional information that is related to the vague term based on the user-restricted database being associated with the given user and based on the given user being referenced by the word of the vague term; and providing the additional information to at least one of the users.