Patent ID: 7392174

Claim:
A computer system, using a provided corpus of linear natural-language elements of natural language text string data in a subject language and an input string of natural-language elements in the subject language, for assisting natural-language processing, comprising, in combination: a) for a first adjoining pair, comprising a first pair element and a second pair element, of such natural-language elements of such input string, finding, from such string data from such corpus, a first listing of each such element syntactically related to such first pair element and a second listing of each such element syntactically related to such second pair element; b) from matching each such first-listing element with each such second-listing element, making a matched-pairs third listing by finding which matched pairs of said matching are found in such string data from such corpus; c) for such matched pairs of such matched-pairs third listing, finding, from such string data from such corpus, a recombined fourth listing of each fourth such natural-language element syntactically related to any such matched pair of said third listing; and d) scoring each such natural-language element of such fourth listing, such scoring comprising scoring each element, as it is related to combinations between other elements.