Patent ID: 7305406

Claim:
A method for computer aided authoring, comprising: when a writer is writing an electronic document, generating one or more topic summaries based on said electronic document; and saving said topic summary information in correspondence with said electronic document, wherein: said step of generating one or more topic summaries comprises, for each of the topic summaries: inputting or generating a topic, wherein said topic contains one or more topic terms; and extracting a summary from said electronic document according to said topic; said step of generating one or more topic summaries further comprises verifying said extracted summary; said step of generating one or more topic summaries further comprises evaluating the accuracy of said verified summary; said step of saving said topic summary further comprises saving information about the accuracy of said summary; and said step of evaluating the accuracy of said verified summary comprises: generating a plurality of referential summaries for said topic by means of summary generation methods; calculating relevance degrees between said verified summary with said generated plurality of referential summaries; and calculating the accuracy of said verified summary based on the relevance degrees.