Method and system for constructing integrated metadata
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorJohn Light
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Abstract
A method and system are disclosed for creating compact integrated metadata representing a set of documents. Each document comprises a set of terms. The metadata comprises a set of topic profiles, each topic profile defining a relationship between a topic and the documents, a set of document surrogates, and a list of terms which may distinguish among documents. Each document surrogate describes a subset of terms occurring in the document and thus permits a document to be searched for by term as well as topic.
Claims26
A method for creating metadata comprising:
- generating a set of topic profiles, where each topic profile defines a set of relationships between a topic and an at least one document in a set of documents, the at least one document comprising a set of terms;
- and
- generating a set of document surrogates, each document surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in a document.
A method for creating metadata representing a set of documents, each document comprising a set of terms, comprising:
- creating a set of topic profiles, each topic profile corresponding to a topic, each topic profile providing the ability to define a relationship between the corresponding topic and an at least one of the documents;
- and
- creating a set of surrogates, each surrogate corresponding to a document, each surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in the corresponding document.
A computer system comprising a metadata creation module, the metadata creation module creating metadata representing a set of documents, each document comprising a set of terms, the metadata comprising:
- a set of topic profiles, each topic profile corresponding to a topic, each topic profile providing the ability to define a relationship between the corresponding topic and an at least one of the documents;
- and
- a set of surrogates, each surrogate corresponding to a document, each surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in the corresponding document.
A system for creating metadata corresponding to a set of documents, each document comprising a set of terms, the system comprising:
- a profile module for generating a set of topic profiles, where each topic profile defines a set of relationships between a topic an at least one of the documents;
- and
- a surrogate module for generating a set of document surrogates, each document surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in a document.
A program storage device readable by a computer system, for storing a plurality of instructions for creating metadata representing a set of documents, each document comprising a set of terms, the plurality of instructions comprising:
- instructions for creating a set of topic profiles, each topic profile corresponding to a topic, each topic profile providing the ability to define a relationship between the corresponding topic and an at least one of the documents;
- and
- instructions for creating a set of surrogates, each surrogate corresponding to a document, each surrogate comprising at least a subset of the terms appearing in the corresponding document.
A method for creating metadata comprising:
- creating a set of surrogates, each surrogate comprising information about a document in a set of documents;
- creating a set of first search items, each of the first search items providing the ability to locate documents in the set of documents corresponding a term;
- and
- creating a set of second search items, each of the second search items providing the ability to locate documents in the set of documents corresponding to a topic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.