ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,818, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Subevent relation extraction" was invented by Viet Dac Lai (Eugene, Ore.) and Franck Dernoncourt (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for natural language processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure include obtaining a document comprising a first event mention and a second event mention. Some embodiments generate a dependency tree based on the document. The dependency tree is pruned by removing an irrelevant word to obtain a pruned dependency tree. Subevent relation informatio...