Patent Document ID: 8612446
Application ID: 12862682

Base Claim:
1. A method for generating a reference set for use during document review, using one or more processors, comprising: obtaining a collection of unclassified documents; identifying one or more features within each of the unclassified documents; generating clusters of the features and selecting at least one feature from one or more of the clusters as reference set candidates; assigning a classification code to each reference set candidate; and refining the reference set candidates, comprising: grouping the reference set candidates into further clusters; selecting at least one of the reference set candidates in one or more of the further clusters as the further reference set candidates; assigning a classification code to the further reference set candidates; and forming a reference set from the unclassified documents associated with the further classified reference set candidates; and wherein all the steps are performed by a suitably programmed computer.

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Claim 2:
2. A method according to claim 1 , further comprising: refining the reference set by reducing a number of reference set candidates included in the reference set.