Method and apparatus for summarizing multiple documents...

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2008-07-08

2008-07-08

Edouard, Patrick N. (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

C704S009000, C715S277000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07398196

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for parsing a plurality of documents, selecting paragraphs from the documents through subsuming relation calculation, and rewriting the selected paragraphs into a summary is disclosed.

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