Text extraction

• US 9,495,357 B1
• Filed: 05/02/2014
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intelligent Language, LLC
• Original Assignee: Intelligent Language, LLC
• Inventors: Smyros, Athena Ann, Smyros, Constantine John
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen, Eric
• Application Number:
  US14/268,865
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• Field of Search: 704/9
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/211 Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking

Abstract

Embodiments are used to extract terms from any text set that are used on other text, such as in a repository, that then can be used in a variety of applications, from providing search results, to analyzing data sets, to building a variety of text generation tools, such as messaging and emails.

Claims

1. A computer program product having a non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the computer-readable medium has a computer program logic recorded thereon, the computer program logic is operative on an input data set involving grammar, the computer program product comprising:

code for receiving the input data set, wherein the input data set is received from an originator;

code for determining a target of the input data set, wherein the target is a variable that is a grammatical function, wherein the grammatical function is an object, wherein a user of the computer program product selects the target;

code for expanding the target into a range of objects;

code for parsing the input data set into a plurality of term units (TUs), wherein each TU is one of a word, a symbol, and a punctuation mark, wherein each TU is separated from another TU by a delimiter space;

code for retrieving a respective grammatical function for each TU;

code for grouping the TUs according to their respective grammatical function based on the expanded target; and

code for displaying the grouped TUs to the user via an interface.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein computer program product further comprises:

code for assigning an expansion interval, if an originating context is needed for one or more of the remaining TUs.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product resides on a device selected from a group of devices comprising:

a computer, a laptop computer, a personal computer, a personal data assistant, a camera, a phone, a cell phone, a mobile phone, a computer server, a media server, a music player, a game box, a smart phone, a data storage device, a measuring device, a handheld scanner, a scanning device, a barcode reader, a POS device, a digital assistant, a desk phone, an IP phone, a solid-state memory device, a tablet, and a memory card.