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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2002
Saliha Azzam, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael V. Calcagno, Kirkland, WA (US);
David N. Weise, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kevin R. Powell, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sonja S. Knoll, Redmond, WA (US);
Pär Jonas Barklund, Kirkland, WA (US);
Evelyne Viegas, Redmond, WA (US);
Saliha Azzam, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael V. Calcagno, Kirkland, WA (US);
David N. Weise, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kevin R. Powell, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sonja S. Knoll, Redmond, WA (US);
Pär Jonas Barklund, Kirkland, WA (US);
Evelyne Viegas, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a named entity (NE) interface to a linguistic analysis layer. The interface exposes each input sentence to the NE recognizers of all applications and returns all recognized NEs. Thus, the present invention can accommodate NEs which dynamically change in the applications, because each input string will be handed to the applications for NE recognition. The present invention also includes a data structure which is a normalized form of recognized NEs.