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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Julian M. Kupiec, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hinrich Schuetze, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/727 ; G06F 1/500 ; G06F 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/727 ; G06F 1/500 ; G06F 1/700 ;
Abstract
A system for genre-specific summarization of documents is provided that overcomes the problem of summarizing heterogeneous document collections by taking the genre, or type, of document into account when selecting summary sentences. The system of the present invention takes advantage of the structure and wording of various document genres to provide faster and more accurate summaries.