METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SCORING DOCUMENTS BASED ON ATTRIBUTES OBTAINED FROM A DIGITAL DOCUMENT BY EYE-TRACKING DATA ANALYSIS

In one exemplary embodiment, a set of attributes derived from an element of a first digital document is obtained. The element is identified from eye-tracking data of a user viewing the digital document. A search query of a database comprising at least one query term is received. A set of documents in the database is identified according to the search query. An attribute score is determined for each document. The set of documents are sorted according to the attribute score. Optionally, a commonality between the query term and at least one member of the set of attributes ma be determined. The search query may be generated by the user. The database may be a hypermedia database.