Patent ID: 8374844
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for named entity resolution comprising: providing a stored global distribution space comprising triples, each triple having the form w with a computing device, parsing an input text string to identify a context in which an identified named entity of the input text string is used, the context including a lexical unit which is in an identified syntactic relation with the identified named entity; comparing the identified context with a plurality of stored contexts, each stored context comprising a respective lexical unit which is in an identified syntactic relation with another named entity and in which the other named entity in the stored context is associated with a class of named entity, the named entity class being selected from a plurality of classes, at least one of the plurality of classes corresponding to a metonymic use of a respective other named entity, the comparing comprising: assigning a named entity class from the plurality of named entity classes to the identified named entity based on at least one of the identified context and the scores.