Patent ID: 9652450
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for automatically extracting claim candidates from complex sentences, the method executed by a processor of the computer comprising the steps of: (a) providing a parse tree of a text sample to be analyzed; (b) disassembling the parse tree into a set of basic meaning-bearing clauses; (c) assembling clauses of the set of basic clauses into a set of complex coherent statements based on permissible syntactic structures; (d) testing the complex statements and discarding those statements that are not coherent when considered alone; (e) discarding those complex statements that either do not provide additional information about a subject, or are too complex; (f) removing information from a complex statement that provides supportive details about the subject; and (g) discarding statements that restrict their subject, so that the subject cannot be generalized encompass a broader subject.