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IDENTIFYING SYNONYMS OF ENTITIES USING WEB SEARCH

  • US 20100293179A1
  • Filed: 05/14/2009
  • Published: 11/18/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2009
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of identifying synonyms of an entity name, the method comprising:

  • transmitting a search term to a web server, the search term being a candidate string selected from tokens of the entity namereceiving a plurality of search results from the web server, the search results including at least one of a title, a uniform resource locator (URL), and a snippet of content of a web page;

    identifying tokens of the entity name that are included in the plurality of search results;

    generating a score for the plurality of search results based on the identified tokens;

    comparing the generated score to a threshold value used to indicate whether the candidate string is a synonym of the entity name; and

    storing the candidate string as a synonym when the generated score at least reaches the threshold value.

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