Patent Document ID: 9355169
Application ID: 13615541

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method of extracting a set of phrases from a plurality of documents, the method comprising: for each document: identifying a plurality of candidate phrases occurring within the document, wherein a candidate phrase includes two or more consecutive words that are determined to occur in the document, and scoring candidate phrases in the document to produce respective document phrase scores for the candidate phrases for the document, the document phrase score for a candidate phrase being based on attributes of individual occurrences of the candidate phrase in the document, with at least some candidate phrases appearing repeatedly having a higher document phrase score than candidate phrases appearing once; for a candidate phrase of the plurality of the candidate phrases: creating, via a processor, a combined score for the candidate phrase based on a plurality of different document phrase scores for the candidate phrase for respective different documents; and selecting the candidate phrase for inclusion in the extracted set based on the combined score for the candidate phrase and based on the document phrase scores for the candidate phrase.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying a plurality of candidate phrases occurring in the document includes: identifying as a candidate phrase a sequence of words in the document terminated by a semantic marker.