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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2015
Alwin B Carus, Waban, NY (US);
Thomas J. Deplonty, Melrose, MA (US);
Alwin B Carus, Waban, NY (US);
Thomas J. DePlonty, Melrose, MA (US);
Information Extraction Systems, Inc., Waban, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus system and method for creating a customizable and application-specific semantic similarity utility that uses a single similarity measuring algorithm with data from broad-coverage structured lexical knowledge bases (dictionaries and thesauri) and corpora (document collections). More specifically the invention includes the use of data from custom or application-specific structured lexical knowledge bases and corpora and semantic mappings from variant expressions to their canonical forms. The invention uses a combination of technologies to simplify the development of a generic semantic similarity utility; and minimize the effort and complexity of customizing the generic utility for a domain- or topic-dependent application. The invention makes customization modular and data-driven, allowing developers to create implementations at varying degrees of customization (e.g., generic, domain-level, company-level, application-level) and also as changes occur over time (e.g., when product and service mixes change).