Patent ID: 6236987
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method of creating a topic arrangement for a set of documents resulting from a query on a document collection, each document in the document collection associate-d with at least one topic, various ones of the topics having semantically related subtopics, each subtopic being a semantic refinement of its topic, each topic being a semantic generalization of its subtopics, the method comprising:receiving a set of documents satisfying the query;receiving a first selection of at least one topic derived from the query;receiving a user selection of a type of topic arrangement from a plurality of topic arrangements for displaying topics semantically related to the first selected topic;responsive to the user selection of the type of topic arrangement, selecting a set of topics for the topic arrangement as the set of topics which optimizes a predetermined set of parameters associated with the determined type of topic arrangement and the selected topic; anddisplaying the topic arrangement including the selected topics.