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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1995
John W Tukey, Princeton, NJ (US);
Jan O Pedersen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A computerized method of ordering document clusters for presentation after browsing a corpus of documents that presents document clusters in a logical fashion in the absence of any indication of the computer user's interests. The method begins by grouping the corpus into a plurality of clusters, each having a centroid and including at least one document. Next, for each cluster a degree of similarity between that cluster and every other cluster is by finding a dot product between each cluster centroid and every other cluster centroid. The similarity information is then used to determine an order of presentation for the plurality of in a way that maximizes the degree of similarity between adjacent clusters.