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Methods and apparatus for steering the analyses of collections of documents

  • US 20060179051A1
  • Filed: 11/03/2005
  • Published: 08/10/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of steering the analysis of a collection of documents, comprising:

  • receiving query terms for use in querying a database including a collection of documents;

    representing at least some of the query terms in a matrix;

    rotating document vectors associated with the documents to match the matrix to produce a matrix of rotated document vectors, each document vector representing a numeric vector created in association with individual documents;

    grouping the rotated document vectors into clusters, each cluster having one or more documents; and

    projecting the clusters to display visual information of the documents, the visual information including a summary view of the collection of documents.

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