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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2010
Srujana Merugu, Gurgaon, IN;
Sathiya Keerthi Selvaraj, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vipul Agarwal, Hyderabad, IN;
Arup Kumar Choudhury, Bangalore, IN;
Srujana Merugu, Gurgaon, IN;
Sathiya Keerthi Selvaraj, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vipul Agarwal, Hyderabad, IN;
Arup Kumar Choudhury, Bangalore, IN;
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for performing computer-implemented extraction of temporal information for business entities and events are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sequence of text is obtained. A label is assigned to one or more of a plurality of segments of the text such that each of the one or more of the plurality of segments of the text is classified as temporal data in one of a plurality of classes of temporal data. One or more rules are applied to the one or more segments of the text that have been classified as temporal data to generate a structured representation of the temporal data, where the rules include one or more schematic rules. Each of the schematic rules pertains to one or more of the plurality of classes of temporal data and indicates a structure in which temporal data in the corresponding one or more of the plurality of classes is to be stored.