Patent Document ID: 8209346
Application ID: 13152915

Base Claim:
1. A named entity dictionary update apparatus using a named entity dictionary and a mining rule combined with an ontology schema, the apparatus comprising: a named entity dictionary and mining rule database storage module for storing the named entity dictionary where a named entity of a terminology combined with the ontology schema and connected to a concept (class) is defined and a mining rule database where the mining rule configured with an RDF triple and a mining pattern combined with the ontology schema and connected to a relationship name is defined; a mining pattern generation module for recognizing a terminology from a text and converting the terminology into the mining pattern; a named entity and mining rule search module for searching for a corresponding named entity and a mining rule from the named entity dictionary and the mining rule database using the recognized terminology and the mining pattern; and a named entity dictionary update module for estimating a named entity of the terminology using the mining rule and storing the estimated named entity of the terminology in the named entity dictionary depending on a user's selection, if a named entity corresponding to the recognized terminology is not searched from the named entity dictionary and the mining rule corresponding to the mining pattern is searched from the mining rule database.

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Claim 7:
7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the mining pattern generation module includes: a named entity recognition unit for recognizing the terminology from the text using lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, and semantic analysis in association with the named entity dictionary and expressing the recognized terminology as a named entity corresponding to a terminology stored in the named entity dictionary; and a mining pattern conversion unit for converting the text including the named entity into a mining pattern.