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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2000
Pedro J. Moreno, Cambridge, MA (US);
David M. Blei, Oakland, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Computer method and apparatus for segmenting text streams is disclosed. Given is an input text stream formed of a series of words. A probability member provides working probabilities that a group of words is of a topic selected from a plurality of predetermined topics. The probability member accounts for relationships between words. A processing module receives the input text stream and using the probability member determines probability of certain words in the input text stream being of a same topic. As such, the processing module segments the input text stream into single topic groupings of words, where each grouping is of a respective single topic.