Patent Document ID: 8892422
Application ID: 13544323

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method of identifying a phrase weighting of a sequence of words as a function of the position of words present in the sequence of words, comprising: identifying a sequence of words; determining, utilizing one or more processors, a centrality value for each of a plurality of identified words in the sequence of words, the centrality value for each of the identified words based on a co-occurrence consistency with other of the identified words in their respective relative positions in the sequence of words; and determining, utilizing one or more processors, a phrase weighting of the sequence of words based on the determined centrality value for each of the identified words, wherein the phrase weighting provides an indication of the likelihood that the sequence of words is a phrase.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sequence of words is part of a larger sequence of words and further comprising: identifying a second sequence of words from the larger sequence of words, wherein the second sequence of words contains the same words as the identified words and one additional word; determining, utilizing one or more processors, an additional centrality value for the additional word, the additional centrality value based on the co-occurrence consistency of the additional word with other of the identified words in their respective relative positions in the second sequence of words; and determining, utilizing one or more processors, a second phrase weighting of the second sequence of words based on the determined additional centrality value, wherein the second phrase weighting provides an indication of the likelihood that the second sequence of words is a phrase; and comparing the phrase weighting to the second phrase weighting to identify which is more likely to be a phrase.