Patent Document ID: 20100313258
Application ID: 12478120
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of selecting synonyms of an entity name, the method comprising: selecting a hit sequence from a document, the hit sequence including tokens from the entity name; selecting a discriminating token set (DTS) from the hit sequence, the DTS being a subset of the entity name that is associated with the DTS; storing a portion of adjacent text surrounding the DTS from the document as a DTS phrase; identifying token pairs that are common between the entity name and the DTS phrase associated with the entity name, the token pairs being tokens that are a subset of both the entity name and the DTS phrase; generating a score for the DTS based on an occurrence of the token pairs in the DTS phrase; and storing the DTS as a synonym of the entity name when the generated score at least reaches the threshold value.