Search engine for scientific literature providing interface with automatic image ranking
First Claim
1. An electronic interface for a scientific database query system permitting retrieval from an electronic scientific database of scientific documents having text and associated figures as stored in the electronic scientific database, the figures described at least in part by text, the electronic interface comprising:
- an electronic computer executing a stored program to;
(a) receive from the electronic scientific database at least one document selected from the electronic scientific database based on a text query from a human operator; and
(b) review the text of the document and the associated figures to provide a ranking of the figures independent from an ordering of the figures in the document and according to an automated determination of an importance of the figure with respect to a subject matter of the document, wherein the ranking is derived from the text of the document.
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Abstract
An information retrieval system for scientific literature provides a summary document for reviewing the results of a query that provides both a text-based summary and an image-based summary, the latter represented by a figure from the document that has a highest ranking indicating its centrality to the concept of the document. A ranking of figures may be done by an analysis of figure-associated text either by supervised machine learning or comparison of text similarities.
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20 Claims
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1. An electronic interface for a scientific database query system permitting retrieval from an electronic scientific database of scientific documents having text and associated figures as stored in the electronic scientific database, the figures described at least in part by text, the electronic interface comprising:
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an electronic computer executing a stored program to; (a) receive from the electronic scientific database at least one document selected from the electronic scientific database based on a text query from a human operator; and (b) review the text of the document and the associated figures to provide a ranking of the figures independent from an ordering of the figures in the document and according to an automated determination of an importance of the figure with respect to a subject matter of the document, wherein the ranking is derived from the text of the document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An method of creating a document summary for a scientific database query system, the query system permitting retrieval from an electronic scientific database of scientific documents having text and associated figures, the figures described at least in part by text, the method implemented using an electronic computer executing a stored program to perform the steps of:
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(a) receiving from the electronic scientific database at least one document selected from the electronic scientific database based on a text query from a human operator; and (b) reviewing the text of the document and the associated figures to provide a ranking of the figures independent from an ordering of the figures in the document and according to an automated determination of an importance of the figure with respect to a subject matter of the document, wherein the ranking is derived from the text of the document. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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