A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each word in the sequence based on the length of the word. The score for each word in the sequence is compared...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US6104990?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6104990 - Language independent phrase extraction