Patent ID: 7779007

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of identifying content of interest within a corpus, the method comprising: identifying with a computer a textual unit in the corpus that includes an instance of an anchor marker set, wherein the computer comprises a processor circuit and operatively associated memory; generating with the computer a plurality of scores for the textual unit, wherein each of the plurality of scores indicates a number of instances in the textual unit of one of a plurality of marker sets; comparing with the computer the plurality of scores to a plurality of reference scores; calculating with the computer an offset between the instance of the anchor marker set and an instance of one of the plurality of marker sets; determining with the computer whether the textual unit comprises content of interest considering the comparing and the offset; and generating a marker set selected from the group consisting of the anchor marker set and a first marker set selected from the plurality of marker sets, wherein generating the marker set comprises: selecting a seed marker set comprising at least one seed marker; generating a seed corpus from a first reference corpus, wherein the seed corpus comprises a plurality of textual units, and wherein each of the plurality of textual units included in the seed corpus comprises at least one instance of a seed marker included in the seed marker set; generating a statistical value describing the seed marker set and the seed corpus; and generating a revised seed marker set.