Patent ID: 7451398

Claim:
A computer system for building a lexicon for use in capitalization correction for unstructured excerpts, comprising: at least one processing unit; at least one storage device being coupled with the at least one processing unit and storing program code; a ripper adapted to assemble a list of word sets from unstructured content, at least one of the word sets comprising a word and at least two non-standard capitalization variations for the word; and an aggregator adapted to aggregate at least one of the word sets, the aggregator including an analyzer adapted to identify non-standard capitalization variations based on at least one criteria; and a non-standard capitalization selector adapted to select at least one of the identified non-standard capitalization variations within one of the at least one word sets, and adding the selected at least one of the identified non-standard capitalization variations to the lexicon, wherein the lexicon includes records, each record including a word, wherein the lexicon is indexed by the words included in the records, and wherein at least one of the records includes more than one non-standard capitalization variation.