Patent ID: 6523031
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for obtaining structured information which exists in a special data format for processing in a data processing system from a natural language text by aggregation, where the aggregation comprises the steps of:a) reading in a natural language text; b) recognizing sentences and sentence constituents in a natural language text for the text read in accordance with step a) by using an extractor, which allocates an information-bearing structure to each -sentence or sentence constituent of the natural language text; c) allocating a substitute symbol which is other than a part of speech label to one or more sentences or multiword sentence constituents of the special data format; d) introducing the results obtained in accordance with steps b) and the substitute symbols allocated in step c) into a further information-bearing structure which comprises functors and argument terms and is described by a computer readable grammar which contains special substitution rules for the substitute symbols added in step c.