Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Girish Keshav Palshikar

Sachin Sharad Pawar

Vasudeva Varma Kalidindi

Sangameshwar Suryakant Patil

Swapnil Vishveshwar Hingmire

Nitin Vijaykumar Ramrakhiyani

Harsimran Bedi

Sangemeshwar Suryakant Patil

Swapnil Vishweshwar Hingmire

Swapnil Vishbeshwar Hingmire

Kripabandhu Ghosh

Ravina Vinayak More

This disclosure relates generally to extraction of cause-effect relation from domain specific text. Cause-effect relation highlights causal relationship among various entities, concepts and processes in a domain specific text. Conventional state-of-the-art methods use named entity recognition for extraction of cause-effect (CE) relation which does not give precise results. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a knowledge-based approach for automatic extraction of CE relations from domain specific text. The present disclosure method is a combination of an unsupervised machine learning technique to discover causal triggers and a set of high-precision linguistic rules to identify cause/effect arguments of these causal triggers. The method extracts the CE relation in the form of a triplet comprising a causal trigger, a cause phrase and an effect phrase identified from the domain specific text. The disclosed method is used for extracting CE relations in biomedical text.

Method and system for extraction of cause-effect relation from domain specific text

This disclosure relates generally to retrieval of prior court cases using witness testimonies. Conventional state-of-the-art methods use supervised techniques for answering basic questions in legal domain using numerous features and do not address interpretability of results and the performance and precision of retrieving prior court cases for these methods are less. Embodiments of the present disclosure obtains an embedded representation for an event structure of a user query and testimony sentences identified from prior court cases using a trained Bi-LSTM classifier and a set of linguistic rules. A similarity is estimated between the embedded representation for the event structure of the user query and the event structure of each testimony sentence from the prior court cases. Further a relevance score is assigned in accordance with the estimated similarity to retrieve the relevant prior court cases. The disclosed method is used to retrieve the relevant prior court cases using witness testimonies.

Method and system for retrieval of prior court cases using witness testimonies

Narrative texts contain rich knowledge about actors and interactions among them. It is often useful to extract and visualize these interactions through a set of inter-related timelines in which an actor has participated. Current approaches utilize labeled datasets and implement supervised techniques and thus are not suitable. Embodiments of the present disclosure implement systems and methods for automated extraction of Message Sequence Chart (MSC) from textual description by identifying verbs which indicate interactions and then use dependency parsing and Semantic Role Labelling based approaches to identify senders (initiating actors) and receivers (other actors involved) for these interaction verbs. The present disclosure further employs an optimization-based approach to temporally re-order these interactions.

Automated extraction of message sequence chart from textual description

Text analysis, specifically, narratives, wherein identification of distinct and independent participants (entities of interest) in a narrative is an important task for many NLP applications. This task becomes challenging because these participants are often referred to using multiple aliases. Identifying aliases of participants in a narrative is crucial for NLP applications. Existing conventional methods are supervised for alias identification which requires a large amount of manually annotated (labeled) data and are also prone to errors. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods that implement Markov Logic Network (MLN) to encode linguistic knowledge into rules for identification of aliases for aliases mention identification using proper nouns, pronouns or noun phrases with common noun headword.

Markov logic networks based alias links identification and canonical mention selection in text

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