Patent attributes
Disclosed is a method and system for identifying and characterizing an analogy in a document. In one implementation, the method comprises identifying a candidate document. The candidate document comprises an analogy for a target concept, a region of interest and a linguistic marker included in the region of interest. Further, the method comprises classifying the candidate document as an analogy document or a non-analogy document based upon a size of a region of interest and a count of linguistic marker. Furthermore, the method comprises identifying a source concept from the analogy document. Subsequently, the method comprises characterizing the source concept with corresponding metadata. The metadata comprises a familiarity of the source concept, a length of the source concept, and a readability of the source concept.
