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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2005
Sachindra Joshi, New Delhi, IN;
Raghuram Krishnapuram, New Delhi, IN;
Nimit Kumar, Bhagalpur, IN;
Kiran Mehta, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Sumit Negi, New Delhi, IN;
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, New Delhi, IN;
Scott R Holmes, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Sachindra Joshi, New Delhi, IN;
Raghuram Krishnapuram, New Delhi, IN;
Nimit Kumar, Bhagalpur, IN;
Kiran Mehta, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Sumit Negi, New Delhi, IN;
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, New Delhi, IN;
Scott R Holmes, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method () is disclosed of extracting factoids from text repositories, with the factoids being associated with a given factoid category. The method () starts by training a classifier () to recognize factoids relevant to that given factoid category. Documents or document summaries relevant to the given factoid category is next collected () from the text repositories. Sentences having a predetermined association to the given factoid category is extracted () from the documents or said document summaries. Those sentences are classified (), in a noisy environment, using the classifier () to extract snippets containing phrases relevant to the given factoid category. It is the extracted snippets that are the factoid associated with the given factoid category.