Method and system for extracting entity relationship by using structural information
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- NEC (CHINA) CO LTD
- Publication Date
- 2010-08-11
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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[0001] The present invention relates generally to natural language processing, and more particularly to methods and systems for extracting entity relationships using structural information Background technique
[0002] With the continuous growth of digital information and its increasing usability, users have higher and higher requirements for intelligent information analysis, and traditional information retrieval technology has become difficult to meet these requirements. Users expect computer systems to play a more important role in understanding plain text. For example, users need a system that can automatically extract the relationship between entities in text.
[0003] Relation Extraction (Relation Extraction, RE) can be used in many fields. For example, it can facilitate the development of question-answering (Q-A) systems by detecting open-domain text and extracting causal relationships from it. For another example, the relationship between genes and ...