Identification and Extraction of New Terms in Documents

摘要

A method and apparatus that can extract new terms from documents for inclusion in a vocabulary collection is disclosed. A document may be parsed to obtain an n-gram phrase indicative of a new term. The phrase may include a plurality of words. The n-gram phrase may be decomposed into a series of bi-gram phrases each including a first and a second phrase part. The first and second phrase parts each include at least one word. It may then be determined whether the first or second phrase part is in a vocabulary collection. If not, it may be estimated as to the probability that the bi-gram phrase should be in the vocabulary collection. The bi-gram phrase may be added to the vocabulary collection if the probability that the bi-gram phrase should be in the vocabulary collection exceeds a minimum threshold level.