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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2012
Stewart Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Fang Liu, Beijing, CN;
Pei Cao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying non-compositional compounds. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a collection of phrases, each phrase including two or more words; for each phrase, determining if the phrase is a non-compositional compound, a non-compositional compound being a phrase of two or more words where the words composing the phrase have different meanings in a compound than their conventional meanings individual, the determining including: identifying a similar term for a term of the phrase, substituting the similar term for the term of the phrase to generate a substitute phrase, calculating a similarity between the phrase and the substitute phrase, and identifying the phrase as a non-compositional compound when the calculated similarity is less than a specified threshold value.