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Method and system for summarizing a document

  • US 20060036596A1
  • Filed: 08/13/2004
  • Published: 02/16/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method in a computer system for identifying significant sentences of a document, the method comprising:

  • training a classifier to classify words as important or not important to a document based on multiple scores for a word generated from different scoring techniques, a score indicating a technique-specific importance of a word to the document;

    generating scores from the different scoring techniques for words of the document;

    identifying important words of the document using the trained classifier to classify from the generated scores those words that are important to the document; and

    calculating significance of sentences of the document based on the identified important words contained in the sentences.

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