Patent ID: 7295965

Claim:
A method for categorizing a sentence into one of two or more sentence categories, wherein each sentence category has at least one associated categorized sentence, and wherein the sentence and each categorized sentence has a number of words and/or phrases, the method comprising: calculating one or more similarity factor between the sentence and at least one categorized sentence in each of the two or more sentence categories based on selections of words in the sentence and the least one categorized sentence in each of the two or more sentence categories; generating a distance metric for each of the sentence categories using one or more of the similarity factors, the distance metric representing a measure of the similarity between the sentence and the least one categorized sentence in each of the two or more sentence categories; categorizing the sentence into one of the sentence categories based on the distance metrics; and providing a result that at least in part reflects the categorization of the sentence to a user and/or computer.