Patent ID: 8370129

Claim:
A method for quantitatively assessing information in natural language contents, comprising: receiving an object name by a computer processing system; receiving, by the computer processing system, a document containing text in a natural language; identifying a sentence in the document by the computer processing system; dividing the sentence into a subject and a predicate by the computer processing system, wherein the predicate is defined as the portion of a sentence other than the subject; retrieving an object-specific data set related to the object name from a computer storage system, wherein the object-specific data set includes a plurality of property names and association-strength values, each property name being associated with an association-strength value; identifying a first property name in the plurality of property names that matches the subject; assigning a first association-strength value associated with the first property name to the subject; identifying a second property name in the plurality of property names that matches the predicate; assigning a second association-strength value associated with the second property name to the predicate; and multiplying the first association-strength value and the second association-strength value by the computer processing system to produce a sentence information index as a quantitative measure for the amount of information contained in the sentence about the object name.