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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1999
Zunaid H. Kazi, Stamford, CT (US);
Yael Ravin, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for coreferencing a plurality of documents includes the steps of providing a name list for names extracted from documents to be coreferenced upon entry of a query by a user, sorting the names of the list of names into mergable names and exclusive sets, comparing contexts of the mergable names against the exclusive sets to merge the mergable names to the exclusive sets exceeding a predetermined threshold to form an aggregated cross-document name list and referencing the aggregated cross-document name list to provide the user with coreferenced names across the plurality of documents which refer to a same entity in accordance with the query.