Patent Document ID: 8332434
Application ID: 12571137

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method to map a set of words to a set of ontology terms, the method comprising: determining a starting point for each of a plurality of ontology contexts, each of the starting points including terms matching a set of words, the set of words including a plurality of words; determining a term set corresponding to the set of words in the ontology context of each of the starting points; ranking the starting points and selectively using a predetermined number of the ranked starting points; ranking the term sets determined for all of the starting points; and providing an output of the term sets in a ranked order.

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Claim 4:
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein each starting point has a cover rate of the set of words above a predetermined threshold, wherein the cover rate for the starting point is defined as the number of covered words of the set of words by the starting point divided by a total number of the set of words.