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Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020

Filed:

May. 17, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Patrick W. Fink, Charlotte, NC (US);

Kristin E. McNeil, Charlotte, NC (US);

Philip E. Parker, York, SC (US);

David B. Werts, Charlotte, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2785 (2013.01); G06F 17/214 (2013.01); G06F 17/271 (2013.01); G06K 9/00442 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
Abstract

Detecting and incorporating formatting characteristics within natural language processing analytics. Source documents are ingested and the markup formatting language is identified by the program. Once identified, the markup language is parsed and examined for formatting characteristics, embedded notes, comments and other metadata. The formatting characteristics of the plain text are extracted, along with the plain text, and converted into a common analysis structure (CAS), or CAS-equivalent structure, which annotates the natural language text together with its respective formatting characteristics. The CAS or CAS-equivalent structures are stored and sent to a natural language processing pipeline for further analysis via complex algorithms and rules. The natural language processing results data are curated to reflect meaningful analysis of the extracted CAS or CAS-equivalent structure.


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