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Keyword extracting system and text retrieval system using the same

US6212517A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 30, 1998
Grant dateApr 3, 2001
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Expiry dateJun 30, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99935
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system for providing keywords to facilitate a search in a text retrieval system. For each of texts constituting a text base, the system creates a word ID of each of words used in the text and a word occurrence count of a corresponding word. The word occurrence count indicates a number of occurrences of a word in each text. For each of words used in any of the texts constituting the text base, the system creates a total word occurrence count and a containing text count indicative of the number of texts containing the word. For each of words contained in the selected texts, a degree of importance is calculated by using the word occurrence count, the total word occurrence count and the containing text count. The words contained in the selected texts are sorted in order of the degree of importance. At least a part of the sorted words are displayed as related keywords.

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