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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:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank Smadja, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
ASAP, Ltd., , IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ; G06F 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ; G06F 1/700 ;
Abstract
The present invention is method and apparatus for implementing a dynamic collocation dictionary. Bigrams and their frequency in a document are ascertained. Bigrams that are potentially collocations are selected. Entries in a dynamic collocation dictionary are updated for selected bigrams already present in the dynamic collocation dictionary. Selected bigrams, not present in the dynamic collocation dictionary, are entered in the dynamic collocation dictionary.