Patent Document ID: 9058308
Application ID: 13788571

Base Claim:
1. A method for generating feature graphs employed for creation of a headnote in a legal document, the method comprising: identifying one or more predetermined features in a plurality of legal documents, wherein the one or more predetermined features are based on grammatical constituents of text in the legal document, the plurality of legal documents being manually identified as headnote and non headnote; obtaining data related to the availability of the one or more identified predetermined features in the sentences manually identified as headnote and non-headnote in the plurality of legal documents; computing likelihood of a sentence being a headnote based on the obtained data; generating feature graphs corresponding to each predetermined feature based on the computed likelihood and obtained data; and storing the generated feature graphs in a repository.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more predetermined features comprise at least one of: a proper noun feature, a date feature, a provenance feature, a sentence complexity feature, a sentence structure feature, a syntactic structure feature, an abstract-entity extraction feature, a comma feature, an ellipses feature, a colon feature, a see or cite or refer feature, a versus feature, a statute and precedence feature, a sentence position feature and a document structure feature.