Patent ID: 8959112
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of semantically linking a citing document to a cited document in a document corpus, the method comprising: determining a cited-text-area present in the cited document, wherein the cited-text-area corresponds with a reason-for-citing of at least one citation present in the citing document, and the cited-text-area is determined by: populating, by a computing device, a citation entry of a citation-pairing metadata file stored in a non-transitory computer-readable memory, the citation entry comprising a citing-document identifier corresponding to the citing document, a reason-for-citing identifier corresponding to the reason-for-citing, a cited-document identifier corresponding to the cited-document identifier, and a cited-text-area identifier corresponding to the cited-text-area, wherein the citation-pairing metadata file comprises a plurality of citation entries and is stored separately from the citing document and the cited document.