Method and system for finding a focus of a document

Details Method and system for finding a focus of a document Method and system for finding a focus of a document

2011-01-11

2011-01-11

Breene, John E (Department: 2162)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database and file access

Preparing data for information retrieval

Reexamination Certificate

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07870141

ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for finding the focus of a document. A semantic network includes a plurality of nodes, each representing a concept, and links, connecting the nodes, representing relations between the concepts is used. The method including: providing a list of terms in an input document which match concepts represented by the semantic network, and a frequency value for each matched term indicating the number of times the term appears in the document; mapping each matched term to a referent node or to a plurality of possible referent nodes in the semantic network, and assigning weights to nodes.

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