DOCUMENT RELEVANCE DETERMINING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
First Claim
1. A method of determining the relevance of at least a part of an electronic document comprising a plurality of terms distributed over a plurality of regions of said document, comprising:
- displaying the electronic document to a user;
determining the gaze characteristics of the person on a region of the electronic document;
assigning a relevance score to an individual term in said region based on said characteristics; and
generating a term relevance label for said electronic document, said term relevance label comprising relevance scores for the respective individual terms in said document.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method and computer program product of determining the relevance of at least a part of an electronic document comprising a plurality of terms distributed over a plurality of regions of said document, comprising displaying the electronic document to a user; determining the gaze characteristics of the person on a region of the electronic document; assigning a relevance score to an individual term in said region based on said characteristics; and generating a term relevance label for said electronic document, said term relevance label comprising relevance scores for the respective individual terms in said document The relevance scores may also be used to define a user profile for the user that can aid in retrieving future documents of relevance to the user.
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15 Claims
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1. A method of determining the relevance of at least a part of an electronic document comprising a plurality of terms distributed over a plurality of regions of said document, comprising:
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displaying the electronic document to a user; determining the gaze characteristics of the person on a region of the electronic document; assigning a relevance score to an individual term in said region based on said characteristics; and generating a term relevance label for said electronic document, said term relevance label comprising relevance scores for the respective individual terms in said document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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11. A method of updating an electronic document, comprising:
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displaying the electronic document to a person; determining the gaze characteristics of the person on a region of the electronic document; assigning a relevance score to an individual term in said region based on said characteristics; and updating at least a part of the electronic document based on the relevance score.
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