Patent ID: 9535902
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06N,G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: obtaining unstructured text data including a plurality of references corresponding to entities, wherein the unstructured text data is not pre-arranged with a predefined data model or schema; determining, from the unstructured text data, attributes associated with the entities; obtaining structured data including predefined attributes associated with the entities; comparing attributes associated with a first coreference unit with attributes associated with a second coreference unit, wherein the first coreference unit is a sub-entity representation having the attributes determined from the unstructured text data and the second coreference unit is a sub-entity representation having the predefined attributes; and determining, based on the comparison, whether the first coreference unit and the second coreference unit both correspond to the same entity.