Patents by Inventor Victor Sadler

Victor Sadler 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).

  • Method for determining the semantic relatedness of lexical items in a text
    Patent number: 5128865
    Abstract: A method for determining the degree to which two or more lexical items belonging to a predefined corpus of text in any given language are semantically related to each other. The method involvesa) the retrieval from the said text corpus of a set of sentences in which one or more of the given two or more lexical items appear,b) the parsing, with the aid of a suitable parsing system, of each of the sentences retrieved, in order to determine the syntactic dependency structure of each of the said sentences,c) for each sentence retrieved, determining from the obtained syntactic dependency structure the contextual relations which the given lexical items have in that sentence, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Assignee: Bso/Buro Voor Systeemontwikkeling B.V.
    Inventor: Victor Sadler