Perspective annotation for numerical representations
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsJake Hofman, Miroslav Dudik, Daniel Goldstein
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Abstract
Various techniques for providing perspective annotation to numerical representations are disclosed herein. For example, a method includes detecting a numerical representation in an original content and retrieving one or more perspectives from a database based on the detected numerical representation. The one or more perspectives individually include a restatement of information contained in the numerical representation. The method can also include annotating the original content with the retrieved one or more perspectives to form an annotated content.
Claims20
A method performed by a processor, the method comprising:
- detecting a subject and a numerical representation in an original content, the numerical representation including a number with an associated unit of measurement, wherein the detected numerical representation denotes a value of the number with the associated unit of measurement associated with the subject;
- retrieving one or more perspectives from a database using the detected subject and the associated numerical representation as one or more keywords, the one or more retrieved perspectives individually including a re-expression of information contained in the detected numerical representation regarding the subject;
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- outputting the original content along with the retrieved one or more perspectives.
A method performed by a processor coupled to a memory containing a database, the method comprising:
- receiving an original content from a client device or a client application via a computer network;
- detecting a subject phrase and an associated numerical representation in the received original content, the numerical representation including a number and a unit of measure, wherein the numerical representation denotes a value associated with the subject phrase;
- retrieving one or more perspectives from the database using the detected subject phrase and the associated numerical representation as one or more keywords, the one or more perspectives individually including a different restatement of information contained in the numerical representation regarding the subject phrase than other perspectives;
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- transmitting, via the computer network, the retrieved one or more perspectives in a machine readable format to the client device or the client application for annotating the original content.
A computer system having a processor, a memory, and a display interconnected to one another, the memory containing instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the processor to perform a process comprising:
- identifying a subject phrase and an associated numerical representation in an article, the numerical representation including a number and a unit of measure, wherein the numerical representation denotes a value of the number and the unit of measure associated with the identified subject phrase;
- generating a perspective for the identified subject phrase with the associated numerical representations from a database using the subject phrase and the associated numerical representation as one or more keywords, the perspective including a re-expression or restatement of information contained in the numerical representation regarding the subject phrase;
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- outputting the article with the generated one or more perspectives on the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.