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Method and product for determining salient features for use in information searching

  • US 5,924,105 A
  • Filed: 01/26/1998
  • Issued: 07/13/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer method for generating a word set for use in locating a document having a type similar to a type of document in a document collection, the method comprising:

  • selecting a plurality of documents from the document collection, each document selected including a plurality of words;

    stemming the plurality of words in each document selected to obtain a plurality of stem words;

    determining a word count for each stem word in each document; and

    clustering the plurality of stem words based on the word count of each stem word in each document to obtain a word set.

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