Patent Document ID: 6076088
Application ID: 08795658

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of preparing a set of documents to support information extraction, the method comprising: defining a set of concept categories; defining a set of monadic relations associated with single concepts; defining a set of dyadic relations between concepts; defining a set of rules that allow extraction of monadic relations associated with concepts and dyadic relations between concepts; receiving a corpus containing documents; parsing the documents to identify concepts; extracting, by applying the set of rules to the parsed documents, concept-relation-concept triples, referred to as CRCs, and relation-concept pairs, referred to as RCs from the parsed documents; and incorporating the CRCs and the RCs into a data organization.

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Claim 13:
13. The method of claim 1, and further comprising translating each CRC to a knowledge representation before incorporating the CRC into a database or network.