Patents by Inventor Tamir SHEAFER

Tamir SHEAFER 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: 9772996
    Abstract: A method and a system for identifying indication for activity in a topic or a sentiment associated to, of an entity in a textual document are provided herein. The method may include the following stages: obtaining a plurality of textual documents describing a plurality of entities; identifying a relationship between entities and verbs at least on a sentence level, based on a semantic analysis of the verbs; determining at least one of: a topic, and a sentiment associated to the verbs identified in textual documents; and using the identified relationship between entities and verbs and a respective determined topic or sentiment associated with the verbs to determine for each of the plurality of entities: a sentiment level associated thereto, and a level of activity at the at least one topic associated thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD.
    Inventors: Tamir Sheafer, Shaul Shenhav, Yair Fogel-Dror
  • Publication number: 20170270096
    Abstract: A method and a system for generating coded dataset of sentences with a high resolution labeling are provided herein. The method may include: obtaining a plurality of textual documents that are pre-classified on a whole document level, into topics; training one or more mixed-membership model unsupervised algorithms, implemented by a computer processor, based on said topics, to yield a distribution of sub topics for each of the textual documents; and applying a transformation, implemented by a computer processor, to said distribution of sub topics for each of the textual documents, to yield a topic tagging score for said sub topics on a text-portion level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Tamir SHEAFER, Shaul SHENHAV, Yair FOGEL-DROR
  • Publication number: 20170039185
    Abstract: A method and a system for identifying indication for activity in a topic or a sentiment associated to, of an entity in a textual document are provided herein. The method may include the following stages: obtaining a plurality of textual documents describing a plurality of entities; identifying a relationship between entities and verbs at least on a sentence level, based on a semantic analysis of the verbs; determining at least one of: a topic, and a sentiment associated to the verbs identified in textual documents; and using the identified relationship between entities and verbs and a respective determined topic or sentiment associated with the verbs to determine for each of the plurality of entities: a sentiment level associated thereto, and a level of activity at the at least one topic associated thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Tamir SHEAFER, Shaul SHENHAV, Yair FOGEL-DROR