Patent Document ID: 8825648
Application ID: 12760844

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: under a control of one or more processors, identifying multiple concept-units from a multi-language document corpus, a respective concept-unit including a set of documents in a plurality of languages describing a particular concept, the identifying including identifying one or more hyperlinks or references within a respective document that identify one or more other documents in one or more other languages relating to the particular concept; and modeling the concept-units of the multi-language document corpus by maintaining a separation of term-by-document matrices for the plurality of languages to create a generative model, the generative model representing: a plurality of universal topics, at least one respective universal topic being defined by a plurality of topic word distributions in the plurality of languages, at least one of the plurality of topic word distributions for a respective universal topic corresponding to a respective language from the plurality of languages and including one or more words in the respective language with corresponding probability values characterizing the respective universal topic; and a topic distribution for at least one concept-unit, the topic distribution for a respective concept-unit including one or more universal topics and their distributions for the respective concept-unit, the set of documents in the different plurality of languages of the respective concept-unit being constrained to share a common topic distribution.

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Claim 6:
6. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising comparing new documents of different languages to the topic distributions to identify one or more groups of the new documents sharing common topics.