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Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Joshua Cason, Oxford, NC (US);

Kandhan Sekar, Durham, NC (US);

Thomas Hay Rogers, Durham, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/322 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for using a natural language processor to find nodes in a span include providing a parse tree including a trigger node, a first target node connected to the trigger node by a first edge, and a second target node connected to the first target node by a second edge, wherein first trigger node includes a first attribute and a second attribute, and wherein the target node includes a third attribute and a fourth attribute. Further included are recording the first, second, third, and fourth attributes in a first tree table; creating a first consideration table from the first tree table, the first consideration table including the first, second, third, and fourth attributes; and evaluating the first target node to determine whether the first node belongs in a first span that includes the first trigger node.


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