Patent Document ID: 9224041
Application ID: 11923904

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: selecting organizational table entry/target text fragment pairs of an organizational table from text fragments of a same document based on textual similarity, each pair of text fragments comprising a text fragment of an organizational table entry and a candidate target text fragment of the same document; training a classifier to identify organizational table entry/target text fragment pairs of the organizational table using a training set having positive examples including at least some of the selected organizational table entry/target text fragment pairs and negative examples including at least some text fragment pairs of the document not selected as organizational table entry/target text fragment pairs, the classifier considering features including at least one text formatting feature; and reselecting organizational table entry/target text fragment pairs of the organizational table of the document using the trained classifier.

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Claim 5:
5. The method as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising: determining effectiveness of the trained classifier using the training set, the reselecting being performed conditional upon the determined effectiveness satisfying an effectiveness criterion.