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Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011

Filed:

May. 05, 2008
Applicants:

Arnd Christian Konig, Kirkland, WA (US);

Venkatesh Ganti, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Arnd Christian Konig, Kirkland, WA (US);

Venkatesh Ganti, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Entities, such as people, places and things, are labeled based on information collected across a possibly large number of documents. One or more documents are scanned to recognize the entities, and features are extracted from the context in which those entities occur in the documents. Observed entity-feature pairs are stored either in an in-memory store or an external store. A store manager optimizes use of the limited amount of space for an in-memory store by determining which store to put an entity-feature pair in, and when to evict features from the in-memory store to make room for new pairs. Feature that may be observed in an entity's context may take forms such as specific word sequences or membership in a particular list.


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