Patent ID: 6741988
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer program product located to one or more storage media devices usable to perform thematic role data mining on a set of documents, said computer program product comprising computer readable instructions executable by a computer to perform the functions of:reading a relational text index, said index including thematic role information and corresponding document location information, the thematic role information being a product of thematic role extraction, the document location information including references to source documents containing the natural language text sourced for the thematic role extraction; performing data mining analytic processing on thematic role information read from the relational text index in said reading, said processing identifying common events or attributes in the thematic role information of the relational text index as a product; and providing the common event or attribute product for further processing or display to a user, wherein said computer readable instructions are further executable to utilize sentence information to build a relational text index readable by said reading, the sentence information including thematic role information; wherein said computer readable instructions are further executable to perform thematic role assignment on caseframe extractions to generate thematic role extraction information suitable for inclusion into a relational text index; and wherein said computer readable instructions are further executable to perform unification of the thematic role extraction information.