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System, method and program for discriminating named entity

  • US 6,975,766 B2
  • Filed: 09/07/2001
  • Issued: 12/13/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A named entity discriminating system for detecting named entities as belonging to one of location names, personal names and organization names in text, comprising:

  • a reading means for reading text from a hypertext database;

    a single text analyzing means for analyzing at least a first text from a referring link page and separately analyzing a second text from a linked page, said linked page being linked to said referring link page by a hyperlink in said hypertext database, said analyzing means providing named entity candidates for at least one named entity appearing in at least one of said first text and second text, said named entity candidates being one of location names, personal names and organization names; and

    a complex text analyzing means for estimating the likelihood of the named entity candidates detected by the single text analyzing means by an analysis with reference to the first text in the referring link page and the second text in the linked page.

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