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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2008
Michael Edward Houle, Kawasaki, JP;
Michael Edward Houle, Kawasaki, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer system for generating data structures for information retrieval of documents stored in a database. The computer system includes: a neighborhood patch generation system for defining patch of nodes having predetermined similarities in a hierarchy structure. The neighborhood patch generation subsystem includes a hierarchy generation subsystem for generating a hierarchy structure upon the document-keyword vectors and a patch definition subsystem. The computer system also comprises a cluster estimation subsystem for generating cluster data of the document-keyword vectors using the similarities of the patches.