Patent ID: 6353824
Filing Date: 2002-03-05
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display; comprising the steps of:a) receiving a plurality of documents; b) providing a plurality of capsule overviews corresponding to the plurality of documents, wherein each of the plurality of capsule overviews comprises a plurality of linguistic expressions each of the plurality of linguistic expressions being derived based on a relational context in which the linguistic expression appears in a document, each of the plurality of capsule overviews being generated by utilizing the following steps: 1) identifying a plurality of discourse referents in the document; 2) dividing the document into topically relevant document segments; 3) resolving co-referentiality among the discourse referents within, and across, the document segments, wherein the resolving step comprises linking the discourse referents by co-referentiality with each other to assess a frequency with which they appear within a document and to establish prominence; 4) calculating salience values for the discourse referents based upon the resolving step; 5) determining topic stamps for the document segments based upon discourse salience values of the associated discourse referents; and 6) providing a capsule overview of the document constructed from the topic stamps; and c) dynamically delivering document content as encapsulated within the plurality of capsule overviews.