Method and system for constructing integrated metadata
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1. A method for creating metadata comprising:
- generating a set of topic profiles, where each topic profile defines a set of relationships between a topic and an at least one document in a set of documents, the at least one document comprising a set of terms; and
generating a set of document surrogates, each document surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in a document.
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A method and system are disclosed for creating compact integrated metadata representing a set of documents. Each document comprises a set of terms. The metadata comprises a set of topic profiles, each topic profile defining a relationship between a topic and the documents, a set of document surrogates, and a list of terms which may distinguish among documents. Each document surrogate describes a subset of terms occurring in the document and thus permits a document to be searched for by term as well as topic.
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1. A method for creating metadata comprising:
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generating a set of topic profiles, where each topic profile defines a set of relationships between a topic and an at least one document in a set of documents, the at least one document comprising a set of terms; and
generating a set of document surrogates, each document surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in a document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method for creating metadata representing a set of documents, each document comprising a set of terms, comprising:
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creating a set of topic profiles, each topic profile corresponding to a topic, each topic profile providing the ability to define a relationship between the corresponding topic and an at least one of the documents; and
creating a set of surrogates, each surrogate corresponding to a document, each surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in the corresponding document. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer system comprising a metadata creation module, the metadata creation module creating metadata representing a set of documents, each document comprising a set of terms, the metadata comprising:
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a set of topic profiles, each topic profile corresponding to a topic, each topic profile providing the ability to define a relationship between the corresponding topic and an at least one of the documents; and
a set of surrogates, each surrogate corresponding to a document, each surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in the corresponding document. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A system for creating metadata corresponding to a set of documents, each document comprising a set of terms, the system comprising:
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a profile module for generating a set of topic profiles, where each topic profile defines a set of relationships between a topic an at least one of the documents; and
a surrogate module for generating a set of document surrogates, each document surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in a document. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. A program storage device readable by a computer system, for storing a plurality of instructions for creating metadata representing a set of documents, each document comprising a set of terms, the plurality of instructions comprising:
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instructions for creating a set of topic profiles, each topic profile corresponding to a topic, each topic profile providing the ability to define a relationship between the corresponding topic and an at least one of the documents; and
instructions for creating a set of surrogates, each surrogate corresponding to a document, each surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in the corresponding document. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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24. A method for creating metadata comprising:
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creating a set of surrogates, each surrogate comprising information about a document in a set of documents;
creating a set of first search items, each of the first search items providing the ability to locate documents in the set of documents corresponding a term; and
creating a set of second search items, each of the second search items providing the ability to locate documents in the set of documents corresponding to a topic. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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