Patent ID: 8442985

Claim:
A system for textual similarity identification, the system comprising: a database configured to store a first set of textual statements and a second set of textual statements; a textual analysis module stored in a memory and executable on a processor to: retrieve the first set of textual statements and the second set of textual statements from the database; generate a plurality of statement pairs, wherein each statement pair of the plurality of statement pairs includes a textual statement from the first set and a textual statement from the second set; identify, for each statement pair, a first verb-entity pair from textual content of the textual statement of the first set and a second verb-entity pair from textual content of the textual statement of the second set; determine a respective score for each statement pair, wherein the respective score is indicative of a level of similarity between textual content of the textual statement of the first set and textual content of the textual statement of the second set; compare each respective score to a predetermined scoring threshold; and generate a visual representation configured to be viewed on a display, wherein the visual representation is configured to visually indicate when each statement pair has a respective score greater than the predetermined scoring threshold.