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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1999
Hinrich Schuetze, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hinrich Schuetze, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention addresses the problems of unlinked or sparsely linked documents by linking them using a set of automatically extracted content words, the 'index terms.' Upon receiving a list of documents for indexing, the system and method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention automatically selects the terms to be indexed and generates a hypertext concordance (an 'HC'). A concordance is an index where each of the indexed terms is listed with surrounding text, i.e., in context. As well, each of the indexed terms in the HC is given a hyperlink, instead of a page number, back to the occurrence of the term in a version of the indexed document. In one embodiment of the invention, the original document that has been indexed is also revised to include hyperlinks from the index terms into the HC.