Aggregating citation information from disparate documents
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1. A method to create citation relationships, the method comprising:
- gathering documents from one or more sources;
populating a database with the documents;
extracting citation information based on one or more rules that define a document pattern; and
associating each document matching the document pattern with the citation information.
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Abstract
A method and system to aggregate and present citations for disparate documents are provided. When the documents are similar to scholarly articles, the documents are further processed to extract citations associated with the document. The citations extracted from each document are utilized to generate a listing of citations that represents relationships between the documents. The content and relationships associated with the documents are displayed to provide a user with access to information for the disparate documents.
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1. A method to create citation relationships, the method comprising:
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gathering documents from one or more sources;
populating a database with the documents;
extracting citation information based on one or more rules that define a document pattern; and
associating each document matching the document pattern with the citation information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method to present a corpus of disparate documents and related citations, the method comprising:
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normalizing the corpus of disparate documents;
extracting citation information from the corpus of documents;
ranking each document based on the citation information; and
displaying ranked documents and relationships between the ranked documents. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system to provide citation information, the system comprising:
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a retrieval service to retrieve documents from one or more sources;
a normalization service to normalize the retrieved documents, a citation service to extract citation information from the normalized documents and to generate citation listings representing relationships between the normalized documents, wherein a structure and style associated with the normalized documents are analyzed to extract the citation information;
a ranking service to rank the retrieved documents based on the citation information; and
a presentation component that utilizes the citation listings to graphically represent the relationships.
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