SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SIMILAR DOCUMENTS

Patent №

US 7,958,136

Granted

2011-06-07

Filed 2008

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

7

ml · nlp · vision · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12050626

The present invention provides systems and methods for identifying similar documents. In an embodiment, the present invention identifies similar documents by (1) receiving document text for a current document that includes at least one word; (2) calculating a prominence score and a descriptiveness score for each word and each pair of consecutive words; (3) calculating a comparison metric for the current document; (4) finding at least one potential document, where document text for each potential document includes at least one of the words; and (5) analyzing each potential document to identify at least one similar document.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware0.98
Planning0.93
Evolutionary computation0.77
Vision0.60
Speech0.20

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 206690933

Assignors

CURTIS, TAYLOR, HEAFIELD, KENNETH

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

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