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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2004
Paul Viola, Kirkland, WA (US);
Hiu Chung Law, East Lansing, MI (US);
James Rinker, Kirkland, WA (US);
Paul Viola, Kirkland, WA (US);
Hiu Chung Law, East Lansing, MI (US);
James Rinker, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates generally to automatically processing electronic documents. In one aspect, features and/or properties of words are identified from a set of training documents to aid in extracting information from documents to be processed. The features and/or properties relate to text of the words, position of the words and the relationship to other words. A classifier is developed to express these features and/or properties. During information extraction, documents are processed and analyzed based on the classifier and information is extracted based on correspondence of the documents and the features/properties expressed by the classifier.