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Producing a visual summarization of text documents

US8245135B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 8, 2009
Grant dateAug 14, 2012
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Expiry dateApr 24, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/9562
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system of producing a visual text summarization. According to the method, a plurality of topics may be extracted from a collection of text documents, where each of the topics comprises a distribution of topic keywords. An importance ranking for each of the topics may be determined, and an importance ranking for each of the topic keywords of a topic may also be determined. A graph may be displayed having a plurality of stacked layers representing a group of topics selected from the plurality of topics based on the importance ranking of the topics. A keyword cloud within each layer of the graph may also be displayed, where the one keyword cloud is a group of topic keywords selected from the extracted topic keywords based on the importance ranking of the extracted topic keywords.

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