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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Elena Pochernina, London, GB;
John Winn, Cambridge, GB;
Matteo Venanzi, London, GB;
Ivan Korostelev, London, GB;
Pavel Myshkov, London, GB;
Samuel Alexander Webster, Cambridge, GB;
Yordan Kirilov Zaykov, Cambridge, GB;
Nikita Voronkov, Bothell, WA (US);
Dmitriy Meyerzon, Bellevue, WA (US);
Marius Alexandru Bunescu, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexander Armin Spengler, Cambridge, GB;
Vladimir Gvozdev, Sammamish, WA (US);
Thomas P. Minka, Cambridge, GB;
Anthony Arnold Wieser, Fen Ditton, GB;
Sanil Rajput, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Guiver, Saffron Walden, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In various examples there is a computer-implemented method of database construction. The method comprises storing a knowledge graph comprising nodes connected by edges, each node representing a topic. Accessing a topic type hierarchy comprising a plurality of types of topics, the topic type hierarchy having been computed from a corpus of text documents. One or more text documents are accessed and the method involves labelling a plurality of the nodes with one or more labels, each label denoting a topic type from the topic type hierarchy, by, using a deep language model; or for an individual one of the nodes representing a given topic, searching the accessed text documents for matches to at least one template, the template being a sequence of words and containing the given topic and a placeholder for a topic type; and storing the knowledge graph comprising the plurality of labelled nodes.