Patent ID: 6539376
Filing Date: 2003-03-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A system of automatically mining a new relationship for an extracted pair pi and a relation ri within a document di, comprising:a relations database for storing previously identified sets of pairs Piâˆ’1 and relations Riâˆ’1; a relations database for storing previously identified sets of pairs Piâˆ’1 and relations Riâˆ’1; a relationship database for storing the relation ri under a corresponding relationship category; wherein if there is no relationship category corresponding to the relation ri in the relationship database, a knowledge module receives the extracted pair pi and the relation ri and applies a linguistic technique to classify the relation ri; wherein if the linguistic technique fails to identify a corresponding relationship category in the relationship database, a statistics module receives the relation ri and applies a statistical technique to classify the relation ri; and wherein if the statistical technique fails to identity a corresponding relationship category in the relationship database, defining a new relationship category and storing the relation ri under the new relationship category in the relationship database.