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Patent drawing for Natural language processing optimized for micro content
US 8,938,450 B2
Computing US 8,938,450 B2 Not in force

Natural language processing optimized for micro content

This invention describes a software system designed to understand short messages, like social media posts. It works by first breaking down these messages, paying close attention to how they're written and punctuated. Then, it figures out the language, uses a specialized dictionary to identify parts of speech like nouns and pronouns, and finally extracts the main topics from the message, assigning a confidence score to each. The system specifically uses a structured database to categorize different types of microcontent and applies rules to assign these categories to messages.

Why it matters: Filed before the widespread adoption of large language models. Modern NLP, particularly LLMs, can now perform the described tokenization, language detection, POS tagging, and topic extraction with greater accuracy and less explicit rule engineering than the methods prevalent in 2013.

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How hard to build
SpecializedHeavy software system, NLP algorithms, ontology database

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