14. A method as in claim 9 , wherein the step of extracting candidate phrases from the text corpus further comprises the step of filtering the added phrase templates and/or non-contiguous phrases to eliminate phrase templates and/or non-contiguous phrases from the first set of candidate phrases in accordance with one or more predetermined criteria.
9. A method as in claim 3 , wherein the step of extracting candidate phrases from the text corpus further comprises the step of adding phrase templates and/or noncontiguous phrases to the first set of candidate phrases in accordance with one or more predetermined criteria.