Patent ID: 6766287
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for summarizing a document comprising:receiving a document included in a heterogeneous document collection having a plurality of document genres; the document including a plurality of sentences; determining a genre of said document at the time of summarization of said document; selecting a sentence from said document; applying a genre-specific summarization routine to said sentence, said summarization routine including at least one genre-specific document feature; said summarization routine evaluating said sentence using the at least one genre-specific document feature to produce a feature value; evaluation of the feature value being dependent at least in part on the genre of said document; assigning a summary score to the sentence based on the feature value produced by the summarization routine; and selecting said sentence as a summary of the document if the summary score for the sentence is above a threshold value.