Patents by Inventor Inga Kohlhof

Inga Kohlhof 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).

  • Patent number: 10289667
    Abstract: Computer-program products and methods for automatically annotating terms, such as ambiguous terms, in an electronic text document are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of annotating a text document includes determining, by a computing device, a term of interest within the text document. The method further includes searching a data structure including incongruous term pairs (tx, tt) determined from a controlled vocabulary for the term of interest appearing as a term tt, wherein the term tt is a linguistic head of a term tx of the incongruous term pairs (tx, tt). The method further includes annotating the term of interest with a meaning provided by the controlled vocabulary only if a term tx of the incongruous term pairs (tx, tt) associated with the term of interest in the data structure is not present within a predetermined textual distance of the term of interest in the text document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Elsevier B.V.
    Inventors: Marius Doornenbal, Inga Kohlhof
  • Publication number: 20160378742
    Abstract: Computer-program products and methods for automatically annotating terms, such as ambiguous terms, in an electronic text document are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of annotating a text document includes determining, by a computing device, a term of interest within the text document. The method further includes searching a data structure including incongruous term pairs (tx, tt) determined from a controlled vocabulary for the term of interest appearing as a term tt, wherein the term tt is a linguistic head of a term tx of the incongruous term pairs (tx, tt). The method further includes annotating the term of interest with a meaning provided by the controlled vocabulary only if a term tx of the incongruous term pairs (tx, tt) associated with the term of interest in the data structure is not present within a predetermined textual distance of the term of interest in the text document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Elsevier B.V.
    Inventors: Marius Doornenbal, Inga Kohlhof
  • Patent number: 9460091
    Abstract: Computer-program products and methods for automatically annotating terms, such as ambiguous terms, in an electronic text document are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of annotating a text document includes determining, by a computing device, a term of interest within the text document. The method further includes searching a data structure including incongruous term pairs (tx, tt) determined from a controlled vocabulary for the term of interest appearing as a term tt, wherein the term tt is a linguistic head of a term tx of the incongruous term pairs (tx, tt). The method further includes annotating the term of interest with a meaning provided by the controlled vocabulary only if a term tx of the incongruous term pairs (tx, tt) associated with the term of interest in the data structure is not present within a predetermined textual distance of the term of interest in the text document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Elsevier B.V.
    Inventors: Marius Doornenbal, Inga Kohlhof
  • Publication number: 20150135053
    Abstract: Computer-program products and methods for automatically annotating terms, such as ambiguous terms, in an electronic text document are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of annotating a text document includes determining, by a computing device, a term of interest within the text document. The method further includes searching a data structure including incongruous term pairs (tx, tt) determined from a controlled vocabulary for the term of interest appearing as a term tt, wherein the term tt is a linguistic head of a term tx of the incongruous term pairs (tx, tt). The method further includes annotating the term of interest with a meaning provided by the controlled vocabulary only if a term tx of the incongruous term pairs (tx, tt) associated with the term of interest in the data structure is not present within a predetermined textual distance of the term of interest in the text document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Elsevier B.V.
    Inventors: Marius Doornenbal, Inga Kohlhof