Patent ID: 9519634
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method of automatically identifying one or more target words of a corpus that have a lexical relationship to a plurality of provided cue words, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of cue words at a computer system, the computer system executing a software application that is configured to accept the plurality of cue words based on an input received from a user, the plurality of cue words being received from one or more data input devices configured to be used by the user to input the plurality of cue words; processing each cue word of the plurality of cue words with a processing system of the computer system to determine one or more inflectional variants of the cue word; searching the cue words and the inflectional variants across entries of a dataset or database with the processing system to determine candidate words that have a lexical association with the cue words, the dataset or database comprising statistical lexical information derived from a corpus of documents, the statistical lexical information including (i) first numerical values indicative of probabilities of word pairs appearing together as adjacent words in a well-formed text, and (ii) second numerical values indicative of probabilities of word pairs appearing together within a paragraph of a well-formed text; for each candidate word, selecting one or more of the candidate words to be the one or more target words based on the aggregate scores of the candidate words; and outputting via a display the selected one or more candidate words in a graphic or alphanumeric format, the computer system being coupled to the display via a display interface.