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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1998
Sanjeev Katariya, Issaquah, WA (US);
William P. Jones, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for generating a summary of a document. The summary generating system generates the summary from the sentences that form the document. The summary generating system calculates a weight for each of the sentences in the document. The weight indicates the importance of the sentence to the document. The summary generating system then selects sentences based on their calculated weights. The summary generating system creates a summary of the selected sentences such that selected sentences are ordered in the created summary in the same relative order as in the document. In one embodiment, the summary generating system identifies sets of sentences whose total length of the sentences in the set is less than a maximum length. The summary generating system then selects an identified set of sentences whose total of the calculated weights of the sentences is greatest as the generated summary. The length of a sentence may be measured in characters or words. In an alternate embodiment, the summary generating system selects the sentences with the highest calculated weights whose total length of the selected sentences is less than a maximum length as the summary.