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Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2006
Applicants:

Chiranjit Acharya, San Jose, CA (US);

Khemdut Purang, San Jose, CA (US);

Mark Plutowski, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Inventors:

Chiranjit Acharya, San Jose, CA (US);

Khemdut Purang, San Jose, CA (US);

Mark Plutowski, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Assignees:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computerized method of representing a dataset with a taxonomy includes obtaining a dataset comprising a plurality of records, the dataset being characterized by a vocabulary and each of the plurality of records being characterized by at least one term within the vocabulary; identifying nearest neighbors for each term within the vocabulary; imputing a degree of membership for each nearest neighbor identified for each term within the vocabulary; augmenting the obtained dataset with the imputed degree of membership; and generating a taxonomy of the augmented dataset.


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