US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for named entity recognition, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,437, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for named entity recognition, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Yongwei Zhang (Beijing), Bin Dong (Beijing), Shanshan Jiang (Beijing), Lei Ding (Beijing) and Jiashi Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for named entity recognition, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. In the method, text elements are traversed according to a text span to obtain candidate entity words. Then, a class to which the candidate entity word belongs is recognized. The rec...