METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OVERVIEW INFORMATION FOR HIERARCHICALLY RELATED INFORMATION

Patent №

US 7,280,957

Granted

2007-10-09

Filed 2002

Owner

PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER, INCORPORATED

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10321420

A method is provided for digesting the content of hierarchically related information. The method, which obtains relatively short overviews, selects a proportion of representative nodes and then extracts and organizes one or more sentences from the text associated with each selected node. For text trees representing archived discussions, the selection of nodes and sentences is from comment/response sequences drawn from lexically central nodes which will capture those aspects of the discussion considered most important to discussion participants.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Speech0.99
AI hardware0.04
Planning0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER, INCORPORATED

assignment · 139040943

Assignors

NEWMAN, PAULA S., BLITZER, JOHN C., BRANTS, THORSTEN H.

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

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