[Corpora-List] IE practice: Searching for names in emails

[Rich Cooper]

Yorick Wilks wrote:

Does anyone recall research  on the detection/annotation of proper  
names in emails? This has been done in Information Extraction on prose  
texts since the early 1990s but I see someone has patented any search  
for (proper) names in email text, which seems absurd in 2007. It seems  
to me a pubic duty to contest this kind of patenting of the obvious  
(and the consequent  restraints on research) and Id be glad to be  
reminded of clear cases of pre-2007 prior art on this.
Yorick Wilks]
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Are you referring to the Brill patent assigned to Microsoft?  A patent or
application number would be useful.  

-Rich


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