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Patent No.:

US 9753905 B1

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Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017

Filed:

May. 26, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sheng Hua Bao, San Jose, CA (US);

HongLei Guo, Beijing, CN;

Zhili Guo, Beijing, CN;

Davide Pasetto, Bedford Hills, NY (US);

Wei Hong Qian, Beijing, CN;

Zhong Su, Beijing, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2288 (2013.01); G06F 17/2211 (2013.01); G06F 17/2241 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for generating a document structure. The method includes the steps of: aligning various parts in the first version and the second version in at least one pair of historical versions among a plurality of historical versions of a document; dividing the first version and the second version into a plurality of blocks on the basis of a Levenshtein distance between the aligned parts; evaluating a level of the block in the document structure on the basis of text features of the block among the plurality of blocks; and generating the document structure on the basis of a position of the block according to an evaluation result. An apparatus for generating a document structure is also provided. According to the present invention, document structures can be more conveniently and rapidly generated.


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Bao, Sheng. (2017). Generating a document structure using historical versions of a document (U.S. Patent No. 9753905). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9753905

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