Patent Document ID: 20040221235
Application ID: 10007299
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. 2.(New)A method in a computer system for transforming a document of a data set into a canonical representation, the document having a plurality of sentences, each sentence having a plurality of terms, comprising: for each sentence, parsing the sentence to generate a parse structure having a plurality of syntactic elements; determining a set of meaningful terms of the sentence from the syntactic elements; determining from the structure of the parse structure and the syntactic elements a grammatical role for each meaningful term; determining an additional grammatical role for at least one of the meaningful terms, such that the at least one meaningful term is associated with at least two different grammatical roles; and storing in an enhanced data representation data structure a representation of each association between a meaningful term and its determined grammatical roles, in a manner that indicates a grammatical relationship between a plurality of the meaningful terms and such that at least one meaningful term is associated with a plurality of grammatical relationships.