7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the executable and operational data are further effective to cause the one or more processors to: receive a query including the string; if the generic score for the string is above a threshold, solicit additional contextual words; and transmit a result for the string in accordance with any additional contextual words.
6. A system for identifying generic terms, the system comprising one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing executable and operational data effective to cause the one or more processors to: evaluate word usage in an article for a string in reference corpus articles of a reference corpus by generating for the string a corpus vector having a list of co-occurring corpus words that occur in the reference corpus articles that also include the string and calculating a corpus ratio for each co-occurring corpus word as a number of times the each co-occurring corpus word occurs in the reference corpus articles containing the string divided by a number of times the co-occurring corpus word occurs in the reference corpus articles, the corpus vector including the list of co-occurring corpus words and the corpus ratio for the each co-occurring corpus words; evaluate word usage in current social media documents containing the string by generating for the string a social media vector having a list of co-occurring social media words that occur in social media documents that also include the string and calculating a social media ratio for each co-occurring social media word as a number of times the each co-occurring social media word occurs in the current social media documents containing the string divided by a number of times the co-occurring social media word occurs in the current social media documents, the social media vector including the list of co-occurring social media words and the social media ratio for the each co-occurring social media words; cause a generic score for the string to indicate greater generic-ness for a greater difference between the corpus vector and the social media vector; and store the generic score for the string.