SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATEGORY DISCOVERY

Patent №

US 7,325,005

Granted

2008-01-29

Filed 2004

Owner

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10902924

A system and method for category discovery is disclosed. The method discloses: receiving an information collection including a set of strings; identifying positively predictive pairs of strings; identifying negatively predictive pairs of strings; joining positively predictive pairs of strings into a category; and splitting negatively predictive pairs of strings into different categories. The system discloses various elements, means and instructions for performing the method.

Machine learningNatural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 16/374Y10S 707/99931Y10S 707/99932Y10S 707/99933Y10S 707/99935Y10S 707/99943

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.99
Machine learning0.99
Knowledge representation0.97
Planning0.62
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

assignment · 158530680

Assignors

FORMAN, GEORGE H, SUERMONDT, HENRI JACQUES, STINGER, JAMES R

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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