Tram V Nguyen

US Patent:

20070016580, Jan 18, 2007

Filed:

Jul 15, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/160943

Inventors:

John Mann - Richmond CA, US
Tram Nguyen - San Jose CA, US
Carlton Niblack - San Jose CA, US
Zengyan Zhang - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707006000

Abstract:

The present invention provides a method and system of extracting information about references to entities from a plurality of electronic documents. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system include () applying at least one document quality measure to each of the plurality of electronic documents, () recognizing the references to entities in the plurality of electronic documents, () using at least one reference quality measure for each of the references to entities, () computing at least one topical category associated with each of the references to entities, () finding at least one co-occurring term associated with each of the references to entities, and () characterizing each of the references to entities by at least one characteristic category.