Patent ID: 6820075
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for auto-completing document content, comprising:defining an information space that includes target document content and additional document content to which the target document content is hyperlinked; creating a database of entities using the information space for the target document content; receiving an auto-completion request that includes an entity fragment of the target document content; analyzing content surrounding the entity fragment in the target document content to provide associated context information; formulating a query using both the entity fragment of the target document content and its associated context information; using the query to identify a set of entities in the database of entities that satisfy the auto-completion request; responsive to input selecting one of the entities in the set of entities, completing the entity fragment with the selected entity; wherein formulating the query using the associated context information of the entity fragment in the target document content further comprises: categorizing the content surrounding the entity fragment using a categorizer to define a category from an ontology to which the entity fragment of the target document content relates; determining a part-of-speech for information of the content surrounding the entity fragment; wherein the query is formulated using the category from the ontology and part of speech information of the content surrounding the entity fragment.