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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Using corpus analysis techniques –
identifying context words and selecting sentences that have a high score for
content words divided by the sentence word count – works very well for
me. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I’m sure there are deeper metrics
for similarity, but that approach is consistent with what is recommended by
Mike Scott and Christopher Tribble in “Textual Patterns”, John
Benjamins Pub Co, Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 2006, pp 55-72. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I use a set of frequent words to null out
everyday language usage, and what is left I call rare words. I use the
rare words to designate content words that participate in the count. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Given a patent claim, the rare words are
those I use to match with each sentence in the patent specification, and the
higher the incidence of a claim element content set matching a sentence content
vocabulary is what should lead to a high matching score. I filter out the
smallest scores and select the 6 – 12 highest depending on user settings
for how many sentences to keep in the answer set. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>It seems to work very well with
patents. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>-Rich<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rich Cooper<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>EnglishLogicKernel.com</span></font><font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com</span></font><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>9 4 9 \ 5 2 5 - 5 7 1 2</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Angus Grieve-Smith<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 09, 2011
10:31 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> corpora@uib.no<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Corpora-List] PS:minimal
changes in a paragraph (based on a corpus it appeared) ... (2nd attempt (after
first one was deleted))</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 8/9/2011 12:35 PM, Bill Louw wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>We need to find out if our discussion has assisted
Albrecht ... Best wishes, Bill<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
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I have to admit that I didn't understand what Albretch
wanted:<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Say, you have a certain paragraph belonging to a text
and relating to<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>the other paragraphs of that same text and to other
ones of other<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>texts and you want to generate similar paragraphs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
When you say "similar," Albretch, you mean a
paragraph that relates to the other paragraphs in similar ways? Because
there are all kinds of ways for paragraphs to be similar.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> -Angus B. Grieve-Smith<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="mailto:grvsmth@panix.com">grvsmth@panix.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre></div>
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