Patent ID: 8204736
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, in a data processing system, of determining a second document of a set of documents in a second language having the same textual content as a first document in a first language, the method comprising: generating, by a processor, a first histogram, the first histogram being indicative of the textual content of the first document, wherein generating the first histogram for the first document comprises: identifying, by the processor, a corresponding class identifier in a repository of cross lingual word classes and replacing, by the processor, each stemmed content word with the identified corresponding class identifier; and generating, by the processor, a second histogram for each document of the set of documents, each second histogram being indicative of the textual content of a document of the set of documents, wherein generating the second histogram for the second document comprises: comparing, by the processor, each second histogram with the first histogram to determine at least one histogram from a plurality of second histograms which matches the first histogram; identifying, by the processor, the second document as the document having the at least one histogram; and presenting, by the processor, the second document to a user.