Patent 7233940 was granted and assigned to Answers Corporation on June, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An improved system for processing at least partially structured data includes a method for comparing a population of terms in a term repository, including standardizing each term within the population of terms based on at least one standardization rule. The method also includes comparing at least a pair of terms including determining a match between the terms if, once standardized, they are substantially identical.