Patent ID: 8515958

Claim:
A method for providing a classification suggestion for concepts, comprising the steps of: maintaining a corpus of reference concepts, each associated with a classification; obtaining uncoded concepts, each comprising a collection of one or more nouns and noun phrases with a common semantic meaning that are extracted from one or more documents; generating a cluster of the uncoded concepts and at least one of the reference concepts; determining a neighborhood of one or more reference concepts in the cluster for at least one of the uncoded concepts; determining a classification for the neighborhood of the reference concepts using a classifier; suggesting the classification of the neighborhood as a classification for the at least one uncoded concept; receiving a classification code for the at least one uncoded concept from a reviewer; identifying a discordance between the received classification code for the at least one uncoded concept and the suggested classification code for the at least one uncoded concept when the received classification code is different from the suggested classification code; assigning an identifier to each of the received classification code and the suggested classification code; and displaying the at least one uncoded concept with the identifier for the received classification code and the identifier for the suggested classification code, wherein the steps are performed by a suitably programmed computer.