Patent ID: 11869264
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A computer implemented method for natural language processing (NLP) of a document including a table, comprising:
processing table items in a table in a document to determine an initial set of a main element comprising an entity whose value is to be extracted, a conditional element that refines the entity, and a value element comprising a value for the entity from the processed table items;
producing a modified set of the main element, conditional element, and value element from the initial set; and
providing the modified set of the main element, conditional element, and the value element to an NLP engine to perform natural language processing of the document including the table, using the modified set of the main element, conditional element, and the value element to interpret the table.