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Extraction of facts from text

CA 2546896 C · Owner: Koutsomitopoulou, Eleni · Inventors: Chen, Shian-Jung; Koutsomitopoulou, Eleni; Wasson, Mark

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A fact extraction tool set ("FEX") finds and extracts targeted pieces of information from text using linguistic and pattern matching technologies and , in particular, text annotation and fact extraction. Text annotation tools break a text, such as a document, into its base tokens and annotate those tokens or patterns of tokens with orthographic syntactic, semantic, pragmatic , and other attributes. A user-defined "Annotation Configuration" controls which annotation tools are used in a given application. XML is used as the basis for representing the annotated text. A tag uncrossing tool resolves conflicting (crossed) annotation boundaries in an annotated text to produce well-formed …

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  • Filed October 26, 2004 and granted August 7, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 26, 2024.
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FiledOctober 26, 2004
GrantedAugust 7, 2012
Term endedOctober 26, 2024
Patent numberCA 2546896 C
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