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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1997
Soumen Chakrabarti, San Jose, CA (US);
Byron Edward Dom, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Piotr Indyk, Stanford, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented hypertext classifier. A new document containing citations to and from other documents is classified. Initially, documents within a neighborhood of the new document are identified. For each document and each class, an initial probability is determined that indicates the probability that the document fits a particular class. Next, iterative relaxation is performed to identify a class for each document using the initial probabilities. A class is selected into which the new document is to be classified based on the initial probabilities and identified classes.