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Automatic linear text segmentation

  • US 20060224584A1
  • Filed: 12/27/2005
  • Published: 10/05/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for automatically organizing a document into conceptually cohesive segments, comprising:

  • (a) subdividing the document into contiguous blocks of text;

    (b) generating an abstract mathematical space based on the blocks of text, wherein each block of text has a representation in the abstract mathematical space;

    (c) computing similarity scores for adjacent blocks of text based on the representations of the adjacent blocks of text; and

    (d) aggregating similar adjacent blocks of text based on the similarity scores.

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