Patent Document ID: 9336299
Application ID: 12426370

Base Claim:
1. A method performed by a computing device, the method comprising: creating seed distribution data comprising a seed phrase and associated seed probabilities that the seed phrase corresponds to a plurality of different lexicons having associated meanings, the seed probabilities including at least: a first seed probability assigned to the seed phrase, the first seed probability indicative of a first likelihood that the seed phrase corresponds to a first lexicon associated with a first meaning of the seed phrase, and a second seed probability assigned to the seed phrase, the second seed probability indicative of a second likelihood that the seed phrase corresponds to a second lexicon associated with a second meaning of the seed phrase, the first seed probability different than the second seed probability, the first lexicon different than the second lexicon; and identifying, from a plurality of web documents, a set of lists of phrases that include the seed phrase as well as other phrases; and based at least on the seed probabilities, determining other probabilities that the other phrases correspond to the plurality of different lexicons having the associated meanings.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: performing a first filtering of the set of lists of phrases by removing certain lists from the set based at least upon a number of phrases occurring within respective lists; and performing a second filtering of the set of lists of phrases by removing further lists from the set based at least upon respective lengths of phrases occurring within respective lists, wherein the other probabilities are determined after the first filtering and after the second filtering.