Method and system for informing users of subjects of discussion in on -line chats
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1. A method for informing a user of topics of discussion in a recorded chat between two or more people, the method comprising:
- identifying elements from the chat having similar content;
labeling some or all of the identified elements as topics; and
presenting the topics to the user.
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A method for informing a user of topics of discussion in a recorded chat between two or more people is described. The method includes the steps of identifying elements from the chat having similar content, labeling some or the identified elements as topics, and presenting the topics to the user. Identifying elements from the chat having similar content includes decomposing the chat into utterances made by the people involved in the chat and clustering the utterances using document clustering techniques on each utterance to identify elements in the utterances having similar content.
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1. A method for informing a user of topics of discussion in a recorded chat between two or more people, the method comprising:
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identifying elements from the chat having similar content;
labeling some or all of the identified elements as topics; and
presenting the topics to the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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17. A method for clustering an ongoing chat, the method comprising:
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receiving ongoing chat data;
decomposing a first set of ongoing chat data into a plurality of first utterances;
when a first number of first utterances has been received, clustering the first utterances to generate a plurality of first clusters;
decomposing a second set of ongoing chat data received after the first set of ongoing chat data into a plurality of second utterances; and
when a second number of second utterances has been received, clustering the second utterances into the plurality of first clusters.
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26. A method for identifying elements from a chat having similar content, the method comprising
decomposing the chat into a plurality of utterances made by the people involved in the chat parsing each decomposed utterance into one or more tokens; -
representing each utterance as a vector comprising a combination of some or all of the one or more tokens; and
clustering the utterances using the vectors to identify elements in the utterances having similar content.
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27. An article of manufacture comprising a computer readable medium containing a program which when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform a method for informing a user of topics of discussion in a recorded chat between two or more people, the method comprising:
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identifying elements from the chat having similar content;
labeling some or all of the identified elements as topics; and
presenting the topics to the user.
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