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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1999
Neelakantan Sundaresan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeonghee Yi, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer program product is provided as an automatic mining system to identify a set of relevant terms from a large text database of unstructured information, such as the World Wide Web (WWW), with a high degree of confidence, by association mining and refinement of co-occurrences using hypertext link metadata. The automatic mining system includes a software package comprised of a metadata extractor, a document vector module, an association module, and a filtering module. The automatic mining system further includes a database for storing the mined sets of relevant terms. The automatic mining system scans the downloaded hypertext links, rather than the entire body of the documents for related information. As a result, the crawler is not required to provide a relatively lengthy download of the document content, and thus, the automatic mining system minimizes the download and processing time.