Patent ID: 9600470
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: a) receiving a plurality of items of content; b) extracting with a microprocessor for each item of content of the plurality of items of content at least one theme of a plurality of themes; c) determining an association matrix with the microprocessor for the plurality of themes extracted from the plurality of items of content; d) calculating a co-occurrence density with the microprocessor for each theme—theme tuple based upon a co-occurrence count divided by a total number of lines in which the theme occurred and sorting the resulting co-occurrence densities; e) selecting a theme—theme tuple and establishing a set of seed terms for the selected theme—theme tuple; f) determining with the microprocessor correlations of the set of seed terms with the other themes within the plurality of themes to establish a saliency score for each theme of the plurality of themes; and g) filtering the items of content in dependence upon a total saliency score established in dependence upon the established saliency scores of the plurality of themes for each item of content and a predetermined saliency score threshold to create a cohesive cluster of items of content.