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Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2012
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Shinobu Matsuzuka, Cupertino, CA (US);

Patrick J. Stammerjohn, Seattle, WA (US);

Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Christopher A. Suver, Seattle, WA (US);

Lokesh Joshi, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Robert Wai-Chi Chu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some examples include segmenting text of a content item to include a plurality of segments or words. For instance, a module for segmenting a content item using a context-based segmenter into a plurality of segments, identifying segment boundary hints stored in the content item, and adjusting segments of the plurality of segments based on the identified segment boundary hints. Some additional examples include inserting segment boundary hints into a content item. For instance a module that segments the content item using a first segmenter and a second segmenter and inserting segment boundary hints into the content item where the results of the first and second segmenter differ.


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