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Method for identifying word patterns in text

  • US 7,426,505 B2
  • Filed: 03/07/2001
  • Issued: 09/16/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for identifying objects referenced in a stream of text, the method comprising:

  • receiving an incoming stream of text;

    tokenizing the stream of text into individual words;

    constructing word patterns of one or more consecutive words from the stream of text;

    consulting a semantic network to automatically find a match between one or more word patterns in the incoming stream of text and a word pattern in the semantic network, such that each word in the incoming stream is searched once in the semantic network; and

    referencing a known object within the semantic network based on an identified word pattern from the stream of text, the known object identified by a word pattern of the semantic network.

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