Patents by Inventor Rani Nelken

Rani Nelken 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).

  • Disambiguation of term occurrences
    Patent number: 7260571
    Abstract: A method for extracting information from a corpus of data includes specifying a topic and a query term associated with the topic, and defining adjunct terms which may occur in the corpus in a context of the query term, the adjunct terms comprising one or more off-topic terms. Occurrences of the query term are found in the corpus, the occurrences including at least one occurrence of the query term together with at least one of the off-topic terms in the context of the query term. The at least one occurrence of the query term is classified as non-relevant to the topic responsively to the occurrence of the at least one of the off-topic terms in the context of the query term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Einat Amitay, Rani Nelken, Niblack Wayne, David C Smith, Aya Soffer
  • Disambiguation of term occurrences
    Publication number: 20040236725
    Abstract: A method for extracting information from a corpus of data includes specifying a topic and a query term associated with the topic, and defining adjunct terms which may occur in the corpus in a context of the query term, the adjunct terms comprising one or more off-topic terms. Occurrences of the query term are found in the corpus, the occurrences including at least one occurrence of the query term together with at least one of the off-topic terms in the context of the query term. The at least one occurrence of the query term is classified as non-relevant to the topic responsively to the occurrence of the at least one of the off-topic terms in the context of the query term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Einat Amitay, Rani Nelken, Niblack Wayne, David C. Smith, Aya Soffer