Patent ID: 7174507

Claim:
A computer-readable software system for effecting on a computer an automatic case acquisition system using a text transformation system, the system comprising: a case acquisition system; a case based reasoning engine; and a model editor interface; wherein the case acquisition system comprises a memory device having embodied therein, data related to transforming text into structure data, and a processor in communication with said memory device, said processor configured to cause the system to input text to be transformed into structured data, define at least one criterion relating to content of said text, apply a first matching method to said text to identify a value in said text for each of said criterion, apply a second matching method to said text to identify a value in said text for each of said criterion that said first matching method fails to identify a value for, associate each of said criterion with a value obtained by said first or second matching method to create at least one criterion-value pair, and create structure data based on said at least one criterion-value pair, where the first matching method has a higher reliability than said second matching method; wherein the case based reasoning engine comprises a structured advisory system; and wherein the model editor interface comprises an interface that allows a system administration to add at least a relation and at least a similarity information usable to the case based reasoning engine.