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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jonathan P Yamron, Sudbury, MA (US);
Paul G Bamberg, Marlborough, MA (US);
James Barnett, Auburndale, MA (US);
Laurence S Gillick, Newton, MA (US);
Paul A van Mulbregt, Wayland, MA (US);
Assignee:
Dragon Systems, Inc., Newton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704-9 ; 704257 ;
Abstract
System for segmenting text and identifying segment topics that match a user-specified topic. Topic tracking system creates a set of topic models from training text containing topic boundaries using a clustering algorithm. User supplies topic text. System creates a topic model of the topic text and adds the topic model to the set of topic models. User-supplied test text is segmented according to the set of topic models. Segments relating to the same topic as the topic text are selected.