Patents by Inventor Joseph Pentheroudakis

Joseph Pentheroudakis 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).

  • Tokenizer for a natural language processing system
    Publication number: 20050251381
    Abstract: The present invention is a segmenter used in a natural language processing system. The segmenter segments a textual input string into tokens for further natural language processing. In accordance with one feature of the invention, the segmenter includes a tokeinzer engine that proposes segmentations and submits them to a linguistic knowledge component for validation. In accordance with another feature of the invention, the segmentation system includes language specific data that contains a precedence hierarchy for punctuation. If proposed tokens in the input string contain punctuation, they can illustratively be broken into subtokens based on the precedence hierarchy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Pentheroudakis, David Bradlee, Sonja Knoll