Patent Document ID: 9996530
Application ID: 15474956

Base Claim:
1. A method implemented by one or more processors, comprising: identifying, from one or more computer readable media, a compound that comprises at least a first word and a second word; for each of a plurality of candidate substitutions for the first word: determining a plurality of measures that each indicate plausibility of substitution of the candidate substitution for the first word, and generating a score for the candidate substitution based on the plurality of measures; generating an extended substitution score for the compound based on the scores for the candidate substitutions; generating a distributional anomaly score for the compound, generating the distributional anomaly score comprising: generating an estimated embedding vector for the compound based on a generated first word embedding vector of the first word and a generated second word embedding vector of the second word, generating an observed embedding vector for the compound based on application of the compound to a trained embedding model, and generating the distributional anomaly score based on comparison of the estimated embedding vector and the observed embedding vector; generating a non-compositional noun compound (NCC) score for the compound based on both the extended substitution score and the distributional anomaly score; storing, in one or more of the computer readable media, an assignment of the NCC score, or a label generated based on the NCC score, to the compound; subsequent to the storing: receiving a search query that includes the compound and that is submitted via a client computing device; determining the compound is an NCC based on the stored NCC score or the stored label; in response to determining the compound is an NCC, treating the compound as a cohesive unit in identifying content that is responsive to the search query; and in response to the search query, providing the content for presentation via the client computing device.

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Claim 10:
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein treating the compound as the cohesive unit in identifying content that is responsive to the search query comprises: determining one or more search results to include in the content based on search result documents, that correspond to the search results, being indexed by the compound as the cohesive unit.