US 2014/0278359 A1 · METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING DOCUMENT SETS TO TERM-ASSOCIATION VECTOR SPACES ON DEMAND

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method and system for producing a term association vector space on demand for a client given a document set in electronic form. The method extracts terms from the document set, stripping out words that do not convey meaning and adding important phrases within the context of the document set to the terms. Associations between terms are calculated, subjected to further analytical processes, and collected in a matrix, whose rows are vectors defining the vector space. Additional associational data can be added by matrix arithmetic, and documents can be rendered as further vectors in the space.

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A method performed by at least one electronic device having a processor and a memory for generating a term-association vector space comprising a set of term vectors, said method comprising:

receiving a set of documents in electronic form;
extracting the terms from said documents;
saving each of said terms in said memory;
enumerating term connections;
saving said term connection enumerations in a matrix in which the terms represent both the rows and columns, and in which each cell contains a number representing the enumeration of connections between the term represented by its row, and the term represented by its column;
and
saving the rows of said matrix as a collection of term vectors.

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A system for generating a term-association vector space comprising a set of term vectors from a set of electronic documents, comprising one electronic device, or a set of two or more electronic devices linked by a network, each electronic device having a memory, and a processor, said processors together or singly operable to execute instructions to perform functions comprising:

A Processing Component, configured to
extract the terms from said documents;
and
enumerate term connections;
and
A Data Storage Component, configured to
save each of said terms in said memory;
save said enumerations of term connection in a matrix in which the terms represent both the rows and columns, and in which each cell contains a number representing the number of term connections as so enumerated between the term represented by its row, and the term represented by its column;
and
save the rows of said matrix as said term vectors.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and system for converting document sets to term-association vector spaces on demand

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Method and system for converting document sets to term-association vector spaces on demand

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