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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJames H. Kaufman, Dulce Beatriz Ponceleon, Malcolm Slaney
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A system and method for automatically generating a hierarchical table of contents or outline for indexing a document and identifying clusters of related information in the document. The document may comprise text, audio, video, or a multimedia presentation. The invention employs a unique and novel combination of latent semantic indexing techniques to identify related blocks and major topic changes within the document with scale space segmentation techniques to respectively identify self-similar blocks within the document and to thus find topic changes of various sizes at block edges. The invention then produces a visual presentation of the semantic structure of the document.
A method for generating a table of contents for a document using only information in said document, comprising the steps of:
A system for generating a table of contents for a document using only information in said document, comprising:
A computer program product comprising a machine-readable medium having computer-executable program instructions thereon for generating a table of contents for a document using only information in said document, including:
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