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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2009
Krysta Marie Svore, Seattle, WA (US);
Jamil Amirali Valliani, Kirkland, WA (US);
Deqing Chen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Lucretia H. Vanderwende, Sammamish, WA (US);
Krysta Marie Svore, Seattle, WA (US);
Jamil Amirali Valliani, Kirkland, WA (US);
Deqing Chen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Lucretia H. Vanderwende, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and computer-readable media are provided for summarizing the content of a plurality of documents and presenting the results of such multiple-document summarization to a user in such a way that the user is able to quickly and easily discern what, if any, unique information each document contains. Each sentence of each document is assigned a score based upon the perceived importance of the information contained therein. The sentences receiving the highest scores are then compared with one another to identify and remove any duplicate sentences. The remaining high-scoring sentences are extracted from the corresponding documents and presented to the user, for instance, in a bulleted list format. The user can then simply scan the list and can quickly and easily discern the unique information contained in each document.