Patent ID: 8396889
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: G06F

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