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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT DOCUMENT ABSTRACT

  • US 20090182553A1
  • Filed: 09/26/2008
  • Published: 07/16/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of automatic, computer based identification of a significant phrase in a document, the method comprising:

  • storing the document, a threshold score, a verbosity setting, and a significant phrases data structure in a memory;

    accessing the memory to read a sequence of words from the document;

    determining by a processing unit a score for each word in the sequence based on the length of each word;

    operating the processing unit to compare the score for each word in the sequence against the threshold score;

    adding the sequence of words as a significant phrase to the significant phrase data structure if;

    the number of words in the sequence that have the score greater than the threshold score equals or exceeds a predetermined number andthe number of words in the sequence satisfies the verbosity setting;

    retrieving a sentence from the document in the memory if the sentence contains a significant phrase stored in the significant phrases data structure; and

    operating the processing unit to search an abstract of the document to determine whether the sentence is included in the abstract.

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