Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100227301 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR OPERATOR TRAINING IN INFORMATION EXTRACTION - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for extracting information from one or more documents. A training and execution plan is received, and such plan specifies invocation of a trainer operator for initiating training of a trainee operator based on a set of training documents so as to generate a new trained operator that is to then be invoked so as to extract information from one or more unknown documents. The trainee operator is configured to extract information from one or more unknown documents, and each training document is associated with classified information. After receipt of the training and execution plan, the trainer operator is automatically executed to train the trainee operator based on the specified training documents so as to generate a new trained operator for extracting information from documents. The new trained operator is a new version of the trainee operator. After receipt of the training and execution plan, both the trainee operator are automatically retained for later use in extracting information from one or more unknown documents and the new trained operator for later use in extracting information from one or more unknown documents. After receipt of the training and execution plan, the new trained operator is automatically executed on one or more unknown documents so as to extract information from such one or more unknown documents. | 09-09-2010 |
20110179019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING UNEXPECTED, BUT RELEVANT CONTENT IN AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - An improved method for information retrieval in web query and recommendation systems, where items that are likely unfamiliar to the users of the system, but potentially relevant, are recommended. In a recommendation system having ratings by a plurality of users for a plurality of items, items are assigned to one or more data regions based on item attributes or user activity. Source regions are identified for each of the data regions. For a given user, data regions with which both the user and the user's social network are unfamiliar are identified. Within a given data region, the relevance of items to the user within such regions is evaluated using ratings provided by other users who have entered ratings similar to the user in source regions for the data region. Items receiving the highest relevance score are recommended to the user. | 07-21-2011 |
20110202267 | Constructing Travel Itineraries from Tagged Geo-Temporal Photographs - One embodiment accesses two or more photos taken by one or more travelers at one or more destinations and one or more points-of-interest located within the destinations; constructs one or more photo streams for each unique traveler-destination combination, wherein each one of the photo streams comprises two or more of the photos taken by the corresponding traveler at the corresponding destination; maps each one of the photos to one of the points-of-interest; constructs one or more timed paths for each unique traveler-destination combination based on the photo streams and the mapping between the photos and the points-of-interest, wherein each one of the timed paths comprises one or more of the points-of-interest located within the corresponding destination and visited by the corresponding travel; and constructs an itinerary based on a start point-of-interest, an end point-of-interest, a time constraint, and the timed paths. | 08-18-2011 |
20110264651 | LARGE SCALE ENTITY-SPECIFIC RESOURCE CLASSIFICATION - A system and method is described for large scale entity-specific classification of each entity-specific set of candidates in a collection of candidates for each specific entity in a collection of entities. The collection of entities may comprise a specific category or domain of entities (e.g. schools, restaurants, manufacturers, products, events, people). Candidates may comprise webpages or other resources with resource identifiers. Entity specific sets of candidates may be found by leveraging search engine query results and user interaction therewith for queries based on entity-specific attributes. The relationship(s) or class(es) for which candidate resources are being classified relative to a specific entity may comprise an authoritative, official home page (OHP), or other class (e.g. fan page, review, aggregator) relative to a specific entity. A feature generator generates entity-specific features for candidates. In accordance with its features, one or more classifiers rank each candidate for a specific class for a specific entity. | 10-27-2011 |
20120143875 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERING DYNAMIC RELATIONS AMONG ENTITIES - Method, system, and programs for detecting dynamic relationship and discovering dynamic events. Data from a first data source is first received. At least one dynamic relation candidate is identified and each dynamic relation candidate involves multiple entities. The at least one dynamic relation candidate is identified based on temporal properties with respect to the entities exhibited in the data from the first data source. Dynamic relations are then extracted by corroborating the temporal properties of the entities involved in the at least one dynamic relation candidate with that of the same entities exhibited in data from a second data source. Then, a dynamic event that gives rise to the dynamic relations among different entities is detected. | 06-07-2012 |
20120158687 | DISPLAY ENTITY RELATIONSHIP - Method, system, and programs for providing one or more explanations. An inquiry is received via a communication platform where the inquiry is about how a set of entities are related. Information is retrieved from a knowledge storage in accordance with the set of entities and such information describes a plurality of entities and relationships existing among the plurality of entities. Based on such retrieved information, one or more explanations with respect to each relationship by which the set of entities are connected are generated. The one or more explanations are then transmitted as a response to the inquiry. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166428 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF WEB CONTENT - A method of improving quality of web content. The method includes analyzing search logs associated with a plurality of web pages by a processor. The search logs are stored in an electronic storage device. A plurality of queries from the search logs are assembled into one or more query profiles. Concepts for the one or more query profiles are generated and classified into one or more concept profiles. Further, the one or more concept profiles are ranked based on one or more parameters. The one or more concept profiles are then transmitted to one or more mediums. | 06-28-2012 |
20130085662 | CONSTRUCTING TRAVEL ITINERARIES FROM TAGGED GEO-TEMPORAL PHOTOGRAPHS - One embodiment accesses two or more photos taken by one or more travelers at one or more destinations and one or more points-of-interest located within the destinations; constructs one or more photo streams for each unique traveler-destination combination, wherein each one of the photo streams comprises two or more of the photos taken by the corresponding traveler at the corresponding destination; maps each one of the photos to one of the points-of-interest; constructs one or more timed paths for each unique traveler-destination combination based on the photo streams and the mapping between the photos and the points-of-interest, wherein each one of the timed paths comprises one or more of the points-of-interest located within the corresponding destination and visited by the corresponding travel; and constructs an itinerary based on a start point-of-interest, an end point-of-interest, a time constraint, and the timed paths. | 04-04-2013 |
20140149036 | CONSTRUCTING TRAVEL ITINERARIES FROM TAGGED GEO-TEMPORAL PHOTOGRAPHS - One embodiment accesses two or more photos taken by one or more travelers at one or more destinations and one or more points-of-interest located within the destinations; constructs one or more photo streams for each unique traveler-destination combination, wherein each one of the photo streams comprises two or more of the photos taken by the corresponding traveler at the corresponding destination; maps each one of the photos to one of the points-of-interest; constructs one or more timed paths for each unique traveler-destination combination based on the photo streams and the mapping between the photos and the points-of-interest, wherein each one of the timed paths comprises one or more of the points-of-interest located within the corresponding destination and visited by the corresponding travel; and constructs an itinerary based on a start point-of-interest, an end point-of-interest, a time constraint, and the timed paths. | 05-29-2014 |
20150074146 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERING DYNAMIC RELATIONS AMONG ENTITIES - Method, system, and programs for detecting dynamic relationship and discovering dynamic events. Data from a first data source is first received. At least one dynamic relation candidate is identified and each dynamic relation candidate involves multiple entities. The at least one dynamic relation candidate is identified based on temporal properties with respect to the entities exhibited in the data from the first data source. Dynamic relations are then extracted by corroborating the temporal properties of the entities involved in the at least one dynamic relation candidate with that of the same entities exhibited in data from a second data source. Then, a dynamic event that gives rise to the dynamic relations among different entities is detected. | 03-12-2015 |