Patent ID: 7769757

Claim:
A method for automatically generating a query from selected document content, comprising: receiving, using a processor, input indicating selection of a subset of a plurality of classes of entities; each class of entities in the plurality of classes of entities including entities that characterize an enrichment theme; identifying, using a processor, a set of entities from the selected subset of the plurality of classes of entities that appear in the selected document content for searching additional information related thereto using an information retrieval system; analyzing, using the processor, a segment of the selected document content that surrounds each entity in the set of entities to extract a set of terms identifying one or more facets in the selected document content concerning each entity; ranking, using the processor, terms in the set of terms corresponding to each entity in the set of entities by their frequency of occurrence in a reference corpus; producing, using the processor, an aspect vector by selecting a subset of the set of ranked terms in accordance with a predefined frequency criteria; formulating, using the processor, the query by augmenting the set of entities with the subset of the set of terms in the aspect vector to contextualize a search at the information retrieval system for information concerning the set of entities.