Patents by Inventor Nimit Kumar

Nimit Kumar 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).

  • System and method for extraction of factoids from textual repositories
    Patent number: 8706730
    Abstract: A method (400) is disclosed of extracting factoids from text repositories, with the factoids being associated with a given factoid category. The method (400) starts by training a classifier (230) to recognize factoids relevant to that given factoid category. Documents or document summaries relevant to the given factoid category is next collected (410) from the text repositories. Sentences having a predetermined association to the given factoid category is extracted (420) from the documents or said document summaries. Those sentences are classified (440), in a noisy environment, using the classifier (230) to extract snippets containing phrases relevant to the given factoid category. It is the extracted snippets that are the factoid associated with the given factoid category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sachindra Joshi, Raghuram Krishnapuram, Nimit Kumar, Kiran Mehta, Sumit Negi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Scott R Holmes
  • System and method for extraction of factoids from textual repositories
    Publication number: 20070162447
    Abstract: A method (400) is disclosed of extracting factoids from text repositories, with the factoids being associated with a given factoid category. The method (400) starts by training a classifier (230) to recognise factoids relevant to that given factoid category. Documents or document summaries relevant to the given factoid category is next collected (410) from the text repositories. Sentences having a predetermined association to the given factoid category is extracted (420) from the documents or said document summaries. Those sentences are classified (440), in a noisy environment, using the classifier (230) to extract snippets containing phrases relevant to the given factoid category. It is the extracted snippets that are the factoid associated with the given factoid category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Sachindra Joshi, Raghuram Krishnapuram, Nimit Kumar, Kiran Mehta, Sumit Negi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Scott Holmes