Method and apparatus for generating overview information for hierarchically related information
US7280957B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 16, 2002 |
| Grant date | Oct 9, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 8, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/284
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method is provided for digesting the content of hierarchically related information. The method, which obtains relatively short overviews, selects a proportion of representative nodes and then extracts and organizes one or more sentences from the text associated with each selected node. For text trees representing archived discussions, the selection of nodes and sentences is from comment/response sequences drawn from lexically central nodes which will capture those aspects of the discussion considered most important to discussion participants.
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