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Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2008
Applicants:

David L. Marvit, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jawahar Jain, Los Altos, CA (US);

Stergios Stergiou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alex Gilman, Fremont, CA (US);

B. Thomas Adler, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Inventors:

David L. Marvit, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jawahar Jain, Los Altos, CA (US);

Stergios Stergiou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alex Gilman, Fremont, CA (US);

B. Thomas Adler, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Assignee:

Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki-shi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In certain embodiments, generating a hierarchy of terms includes accessing a corpus comprising terms. The following is performed for one or more terms to yield parent-child relationships: one or more parent terms of a term are identified according to directional affinity; and one or more parent-child relationships are established from the parent terms and each term. A hierarchical graph is automatically generated from the parent-child relationships.


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