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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2012
Michael Swinson, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Mikhail Semeniuk, Golden Valley, MN (US);
Xingchu Liu, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Michael Swinson, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Mikhail Semeniuk, Golden Valley, MN (US);
Xingchu Liu, Los Angeles, CA (US);
TrueCar, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
Natural language processing (NLP) approaches may be utilized to map two strings. The strings may come from sources utilizing different naming conventions. One example may be a data aggregator that collects used car transaction information. Another example may be a comprehensive database listing all possible manufacturer-defined vehicle options. A NLP system may operate to determine whether a source string is present in a target string and outputting a match containing the source string and the target string if the source string is present in the target string or computing a similarity factor if the source string is not present in the target string. The similarity factor representing a measure of similarity between two strings may be computed based on a plurality of parameters, including a Levenshtein edit distance parameter. The computed similarity can be used to find pricing information, including trade-in, sale, and list prices, across disparate naming conventions.