1. A method for identifying a term as unnumbered within a patent disclosure, comprising the steps of: tokenizing the patent disclosure to form a tokenized patent disclosure comprising a plurality of tokens; identifying a token type associated with each token within the tokenized patent disclosure; identifying a token sequence within the tokenized patent disclosure; comparing the token sequence to determine if the token types of each token within the token sequence matches a predetermined pattern of token types; searching a term dictionary to determine if the term is in the term dictionary; and indicating the term as an unnumbered term if the term is not in the term dictionary, and the token sequence matches a predetermined pattern.