Method and apparatus for improving the readability of an automatically machine-generated summary
US8650483B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 22, 2004 |
| Grant date | Feb 11, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 17, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/345
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
According to the present invention, there is provided a method and system for automatically generating a summary for a textual document, and relevant applications. The method and system includes segmenting a given textual document into document segments, wherein the document segments are words, sentences or paragraphs in the textual document; extracting a number of the document segments to form an initial summary for the document; for each of the document segments in the initial summary, calculating the correlation degrees between the document segment and its neighboring document segments, wherein the neighboring document segments of a given document segment refer to the document segments within a predefined distance from the given document segment; and adding the document segments with higher correlation degrees into the initial summary.
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