Patent ID: 7747555

Claim:
A method for intelligently grouping definitions, the method comprising the steps of: a) extracting a set of definitions from a repository of documents by: i) determining which documents in a repository of documents contains a glossary; ii) extracting definitional information from documents containing a glossary; iii) determining whether the documents in the repository contain an acronym within a series of text; iv) extracting definitional information from the documents containing an acronym or an initialization; v) searching in the repository of documents for terms appearing in sentences with a format which is suggestive of definitional phrase; and vi) extracting definitional information from documents with terms appearing in sentences of the format “a X is a Y”; b) grouping the extracted definitions according to common semantic meaning; c) identifying groups of definitions that are themselves semantically similar to other groups of definitions; and d) storing the groups of extracted definitions to create a knowledge-base for retrieval.