Automatic summarization of a document

• US 20020078091A1
• Filed: 07/18/2001
• Published: 06/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Firespout, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Firespout, Inc.
• Inventors: Vu, Sonny, Purdy, David, Bader, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US09/908,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20020078091A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/513
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/353 into predefined classes

Abstract

A target document having a plurality of features is summarized by collecting contextual data external to the document. On the basis of this contextual data, the features of the target document are then weighted to indicate the relative importance of that feature. This results in a weighted target document that is then summarized.

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