5. The system of claim 1 , wherein: the common context in which the plurality of semantic entities occur corresponds to a valency structure controlled by a controlling valency frame component of the valency frame.
1. A system comprising at least one processor programmed to: process an input text to identify a plurality of semantic patterns that match the input text, wherein, for at least one semantic pattern of the plurality of semantic patterns: the at least one semantic pattern comprises a valency frame having a plurality of valency frame components; the plurality of valency frame components correspond, respectively, to a plurality of semantic entities identified from the at least one input text; and the plurality of semantic entities occur in a common context within the at least one input text; and use statistical information derived from training data to associate a respective weight with each semantic pattern of the plurality of semantic patterns, wherein, for the at least one semantic pattern, the statistical information comprises at least one measure of mutual information derived from the training data.