SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR QUESTIONBASED SENTIMENT ANALYSIS AND SUMMARIZATION

摘要

Exemplary systems for processing a corpus of documents, such as legal contracts or agreements, are disclosed. The systems include a phrase discovery engine which derives statistics and phrase equivalence classes, groups of phrase equivalence classes, and uberphrases (clauses) bounded by phrases. These can be used to determine origins of phrases or clauses within given legal contract or to suggest alternative phrases and clauses.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving an electronic text; parsing the electronic text in a plurality of phrases or clauses; comparing the phrase or clause to two or more phrases or clauses from a corpus of other electronic documents; and identifying one or more of the extracted phrases or clauses or other electronic documents based on the comparison.