Patent Document ID: 20080109399
Application ID: 11647871
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: computing a term score for a member of a set of terms in a document to be summarized; computing a sentence score for a member of a set of sentences in the document; computing a set of entries for a term-sentence matrix that relates members of the set of terms to members of the set of sentences, a sentence containing one or more terms, a term appearing in one or more sentences; computing a dominant topic for the document by computing a term eigenvector, where a member of the term eigenvector represents a relevancy of a term to the dominant topic, and by computing a sentence eigenvector, where a member of the sentence eigenvector represents a relevancy of a sentence to the dominant topic; simultaneously ranking the set of terms and the set of sentences based, at least in part, on the dominant topic; and providing a summarization item selected from one or more of, the set of terms, and the set of sentences, the summarization item being selected based, at least in part, on one or more of, a ranking of the set of terms, and a ranking of the set of sentences.