METHOD FOR DETERMINING A LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF A DOCUMENT

Patent №

US 6,907,431

Granted

2005-06-14

Filed 2002

Owner

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10139041

A method for determining a logical structure of a document. At least one candidate table of contents page of the document is determined, wherein the table of contents page comprises a plurality of table of contents words. The document comprises at least one table of contents page and a plurality of body pages, wherein at least one body page comprises a plurality of body words. A dictionary is built for the candidate table of contents page, the dictionary comprising at least one table of contents word. One body page is analyzed for at least one text match between the plurality of body words and the table of contents words of the dictionary. Based on an evaluation the text match, it is determined whether the body page is a title page.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.91
Knowledge representation0.80
Machine learning0.09
Planning0.09
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

assignment · 134580322

Assignors

LIN, XIAOFAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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