Selective Deep Parsing of Natural Language Content

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

• configure a targeted deep parse natural language processing system to recognize one or more triggers, wherein the triggers are elements within natural language content that indicate a portion of natural language content that is to be targeted with a deep parse operation;
• receive, by the targeted deep parse natural language processing system, a portion of natural language content from a corpus of natural language content;
• perform, by the targeted deep parse natural language processing system, a pre-deep parse scan operation of the portion of natural language content based on the one or more triggers to identify one or more sub-portions of the portion of natural language content that contain at least one of the one or more triggers;
• and
• perform, by the targeted deep parse natural language processing system, a natural language processing operation comprising a deep parse of only the one or more sub-portions of the portion of natural language content that contain at least one of the one or more triggers, while other sub-portions of the portion of natural language content are not deep parsed, wherein performing the pre-deep parse scan operation of the portion of natural language content comprises associating with each of the one or more sub-portions of the portion of natural language content, a deep parse indicator specifying that the one or more sub-portions of the portion of natural language content are to be deep parsed by a deep parser of the targeted deep parse natural language processing system.

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• configure a targeted deep parse natural language processing system to recognize one or more triggers, wherein the triggers are elements within natural language content that indicate a portion of natural language content that is to be targeted with a deep parse operation;
• receive, by the targeted deep parse natural language processing system, a portion of natural language content from a corpus of natural language content;
• perform, by the targeted deep parse natural language processing system, a pre-deep parse scan operation of the portion of natural language content based on the one or more triggers to identify one or more sub-portions of the portion of natural language content that contain at least one of the one or more triggers;
• and
• perform, by the targeted deep parse natural language processing system, a natural language processing operation comprising a deep parse of only the one or more sub-portions of the portion of natural language content that contain at least one of the one or more triggers, while other sub-portions of the portion of natural language content are not deep parsed, wherein performing the pre-deep parse scan operation of the portion of natural language content comprises associating with each of the one or more sub-portions of the portion of natural language content, a deep parse indicator specifying that the one or more sub-portions of the portion of natural language content are to be deep parsed by a deep parser of the targeted deep parse natural language processing system.