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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2009
Wei Jia Cai, Beijing, CN;
Xiao Xiao Lian, Beijing, CN;
Shixia Liu, Beijing, CN;
Shimei Pan, Elmsford, NY (US);
Wei Hong Qian, Beijing, CN;
Yang Qiu Song, Beijing, CN;
Qiang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Michelle Xue Zhou, Saratoga, CA (US);
Wei Jia Cai, Beijing, CN;
Xiao Xiao Lian, Beijing, CN;
Shixia Liu, Beijing, CN;
Shimei Pan, Elmsford, NY (US);
Wei Hong Qian, Beijing, CN;
Yang Qiu Song, Beijing, CN;
Qiang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Michelle Xue Zhou, Saratoga, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system of producing a visual text summarization. According to the method, a plurality of topics may be extracted from a collection of text documents, where each of the topics comprises a distribution of topic keywords. An importance ranking for each of the topics may be determined, and an importance ranking for each of the topic keywords of a topic may also be determined. A graph may be displayed having a plurality of stacked layers representing a group of topics selected from the plurality of topics based on the importance ranking of the topics. A keyword cloud within each layer of the graph may also be displayed, where the one keyword cloud is a group of topic keywords selected from the extracted topic keywords based on the importance ranking of the extracted topic keywords.