Patent ID: 6442545
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for mining in a database including documents, the documents including text, the method comprising:providing a taxonomy of taxonomy terms; mining the documents responsive to the taxonomy to discover a relationship between two or more of the taxonomy terms; analyzing, over a plurality of the documents, co-occurrences of substantially every one of the two or more taxonomy terms with substantially every other one of the two or more taxonomy terms, to determine relationships among the two or more taxonomy terms to extract information not specified by the taxonomy relating to the two or more taxonomy terms; and presenting the information relating to the two or more taxonomy terms to a user by displaying at least some of the two or more taxonomy terms and displaying an output indicative of the number of the co-occurrences of substantially each of the at least some terms with substantially every other one of the at least some terms.