Patent ID: 6505150
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A processor implemented method of searching a heterogeneous corpus of untagged machine-readable texts, each text of the corpus having a text genre and a topic, the corpus including at least a first text genre and a second text genre, the corpus including a multiplicity of topics, the processor implemented method comprising the steps of:a) searching the corpus for a first multiplicity of untagged texts that have a first topic; b) identifying a first set of texts of the first multiplicity of untagged texts that are instances of the first text genre; c) identifying a second set of texts of the first multiplicity of untagged texts that are instances of the second text genre; d) identifying the first multiplicity of untagged texts to a computer user in an order based upon at least a first type and a second type of text genre.