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Pattern Searching Methods and Apparatuses

  • US 20110161315A1
  • Filed: 03/11/2011
  • Published: 06/30/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A machine-implemented method for identifying patterns in text using structures defining types of patterns which are to be identified, wherein a structure comprises one or more definition items, the method comprising:

  • searching a text data for a pattern to be identified on the basis of a particular structure, a pattern being provisionally identified if it matches the definition given by said particular structure, wherein said structures are automatically extended on the basis of information available from a data source;

    assigning a weighting to each definition item in the provisionally identified pattern;

    rejecting or confirming the provisionally identified pattern based upon a calculation which combines the weightings of the definition items in the provisionally identified pattern.

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