Patent Document ID: 9058374
Application ID: 14037506

Base Claim:
1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, for generating section metadata for an electronic document, the method comprising: receiving, by the data processing system, an electronic document for processing; analyzing, by the data processing system, the electronic document to identify concepts present within textual content of the electronic document; correlating, by the data processing system, concepts within the textual content with one another to identify concept groups within the textual content based on the application of one or more rules defining related concepts or concept patterns; determining, by the data processing system, at least one section of text within the textual content based on the correlation of concepts within the textual content; generating, by the data processing system, based on results of the determining, section metadata for the electronic document to thereby identify the at least one section in the electronic document; and storing, by the data processing system, the section metadata in association with the electronic document for use by a document processing system.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the document processing system is a natural language processing system, and wherein the method further comprises performing natural language processing on the electronic document based on the section metadata associated with the electronic document.