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Rule based apparatus for modifying word annotations

  • US 8,433,560 B2
  • Filed: 04/01/2009
  • Issued: 04/30/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A rule based apparatus for modifying annotations in an annotated text base comprising a plurality of documents, the apparatus comprising:

  • an index creator component that;

    creates an annotation array that indexes annotations assigned to terms in the annotated text base, the annotation array comprising annotations and references for each annotation from the annotated text base; and

    creates an index that indexes the annotated terms in the annotated text base, the index comprising a list of all words in the annotated text base and for each word, the assigned annotation and a list of references;

    an annotations modifying component that modifies annotations in response to implementing rules;

    a retriggering component, responsive to said annotations modifying component modifying a select annotation to an updated annotation, that retriggers a rules engine to;

    modify all annotation occurrences in the index that match the select annotation, to the updated annotation; and

    update the annotation array with a reference to the modified occurrences of the select annotation in the annotated text base.

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