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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2007
Ian Thurlow, Woodbridge, GB;
Richard Thurlow, Felixstowe, GB;
Nicholas J Davies, Colchester, GB;
Abstract
A data handling device has access to a store of existing metadata pertaining to existing documents having associated metadata terms. It analyses the metadata to generate statistical data as to the co-occurrence of pairs of terms in the metadata of one and the same document. When a fresh document is received, it is analysed to assign to it a set of terms and determine for each a measure of their strength of association with the document. Then, for each term of the set, a score is generated that is a monotonically increasing function of (a) the strength of association with the document and of (b) the relative frequency of co-occurrence of that term and another term that occurs in the set; metadata for the fresh document are then selected as the subset of the terms in the set having the highest scores.