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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2004
Applicants:
Alexander Saldanha, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Patrick Mcgreer, Orinda, CA (US);
Luca Carloni, Berkeley, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alexander Saldanha, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Patrick McGreer, Orinda, CA (US);
Luca Carloni, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ariba, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system for converting plain text into structured data. Parse trees for the plain text are generated based on the grammar of a natural language, the parse trees are mapped on to instance trees generated based on an application-specific model. The best map is chosen, and the instance tree is passing to an application for execution. The method and system can be used both for populating a database and/or for retrieving data from a database based on a query.