Patents by Inventor Aurl A. Menezes

Aurl A. Menezes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for ranking words and concepts in a text using graph-based ranking
    Patent number: 7430504
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for identifying words, text fragments, or concepts of interest in a corpus of text. A graph is built which covers the corpus of text. The graph includes nodes and links, where nodes represent a word or a concept and links between the nodes represent directed relation names. A score is then computed for each node in the graph. Scores can also be computed for larger sub-graph portions of the graph (such as tuples) The scores are used to identify desired sub-graph portions of the graph, those sub-graph portions being referred to as graph fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lucretia H. Vanderwende, Aurl A. Menezes, Michele L. Banko
  • Scaleable machine translation
    Patent number: 7206735
    Abstract: A method translates a textual input in a first language to a textual output in a second language. An input logical form is generated based on the textual input. When a plurality of transfer mappings in a transfer mapping database match the input logical form (or at least a portion thereof) one or more of those plurality of matching transfer mappings is selected based on a predetermined metric. Textual output is generated based on the selected transfer logical form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Aurl A. Menezes, Stephen D. Richardson, Jessie E. Pinkman, William B. Dolan
  • Method and system for ranking words and concepts in a text using graph-based ranking
    Publication number: 20050220351
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for identifying words, text fragments, or concepts of interest in a corpus of text. A graph is built which covers the corpus of text. The graph includes nodes and links, where nodes represent a word or a concept and links between the nodes represent directed relation names. A score is then computed for each node in the graph. Scores can also be computed for larger sub-graph portions of the graph (such as tuples) The scores are used to identify desired sub-graph portions of the graph, those sub-graph portions being referred to as graph fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lucretia Vanderwende, Aurl Menezes, Michele Banko