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Automatic correlation method for generating summaries for text documents

  • US 20020052901A1
  • Filed: 08/31/2001
  • Published: 05/02/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An automatic method for generating summaries for text documents, comprising steps of:

  • generating a set of sentences for a set of documents by document discourse analysis and a set of words by morphologic process;

    initializing a score for each word in the set of words and for each sentence in the set of sentences;

    computing the score for each word in the set of words according to the score of sentences containing it and the correlation degree between the word and the user information;

    computing the score for each sentence in the set of sentences according to the score of words composing it and the position of the sentence in a section and a paragraph; and

    if the sum of scores of the words and the sum of scores of the sentences change apparently, go back to the step of computing the word score;

    otherwise continuing;

    outputting the top-ranked sentences as the summary of the set of documents, the top-ranked words as the keywords list of the set of documents.

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