Scheme for creating a ranked subject matter expert index
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1. A method of organizing electronic document-related information comprising:
- forming at least one cluster of electronic documents based upon a user'"'"'s selection of a subject;
identifying each author of the documents in said cluster and accumulating a number of times each identified author is an author of a document in the cluster of electronic documents corresponding to said subject;
ranking each identified author according to the number accumulated for each identified author; and
presenting the rankings for the identified authors in an index form.
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Abstract
A method of organizing electronic document-related information at least includes generating a collection of electronic documents, forming from the collection, at least one cluster of documents based upon a user'"'"'s selection of a subject, and determining for each author of documents in the cluster, the number of times each the author is an author of a document corresponding to the subject. The authors are ranked and presented to the user in the form of an index. The ranked index can be interpreted as a ranking of subject matter experts.
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1. A method of organizing electronic document-related information comprising:
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forming at least one cluster of electronic documents based upon a user'"'"'s selection of a subject; identifying each author of the documents in said cluster and accumulating a number of times each identified author is an author of a document in the cluster of electronic documents corresponding to said subject; ranking each identified author according to the number accumulated for each identified author; and presenting the rankings for the identified authors in an index form. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for organizing electronic document-related information comprising:
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a document cluster former for forming at least one cluster of electronic documents based upon a user'"'"'s selection of a subject; an author counter for identifying each author of a document in said cluster and accumulating the number of times each identified author is an author of a document in the cluster corresponding to said subject; an author ranker for ranking each identified author according to the number of times accumulated for the identified author; and an author indexer for sorting the identified authors into an index. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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