Elsevier, Inc.

Antony Jason Scerri

Corey A Harper

Chi Yeung Cheung

Sandra Merten

Ronald E Daniel, Jr

Jessica Rose Cox

A method for performing a search for a result set of documents comprises receiving, at a computing device, an electronic document, identifying a numerical value in the document, extracting the numerical value and a portion of text surrounding the numerical value from the document to obtain extracted text, creating a vector representation of the extracted text, generating a series of questions associated with the extracted text, generating answers to the series of questions based on the vector representation of the extracted text, determining a context associated with the numerical value based on the answers to the plurality of questions, and storing the numerical value and the context associated with the numerical value in a database.

Systems and methods to extract the context of scientific measurements using targeted question answering

Systems and methods for indexing geological features are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for indexing geological features includes accessing a database storing a plurality of map objects that originate from documents. Each map object includes a map defined by a geographical boundary and a text caption. The method includes, for each map object, determining a plurality of geohashes within the geographical boundary, and includes, for each map object, comparing terms of the text caption with a list of geological keywords. For each map object, the method includes identifying one or more geological noun phrases within the text caption that match one or more geological noun phrases of the list. The method includes determining, for each geological noun phrase, one or more geohashes associated with the geological noun phrase and, for each geohash, determining a frequency that the geohash is associated with the geological noun phrase.

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Antony Jason Scerri