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US 8,543,380 B2Granted
Determining a document specificity
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsDavid L. Marvit, Jawahar Jain, Stergios Stergiou
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Abstract
In one embodiment, determining a document specificity includes accessing a record that records the clusters of documents. The number of themes of a document is determined from the number of clusters of the document. The specificity of the document is determined from the number of themes.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- accessing a record stored in one or more tangible media, the record recording a plurality of clusters of a plurality of documents, a document comprising a plurality of words, a cluster comprising a plurality of satisfactorily affine words of the plurality of words, a cluster indicating a theme;
- establishing a number of themes of each document of at least a subset of the plurality of documents;
- determining a specificity of the each document according to the number of themes by:
- determining that the each document is more specific if the each document has a lower number of themes;
- and
- determining that the each document is less specific if the each document has a higher number of themes;
- receiving a search query comprising a document specificity request, the document specificity indicated using a slider;
- and
- retrieving one or more documents of the plurality of documents that satisfy the search query and the document specificity request.
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One or more non-transitory computer-readable tangible media encoding software operable when executed to:
- access a record stored in one or more tangible media, the record recording a plurality of clusters of a plurality of documents, a document comprising a plurality of words, a cluster comprising a plurality of satisfactorily affine words of the plurality of words, a cluster indicating a theme;
- establish a number of themes of each document of at least a subset of the plurality of documents;
- determine a specificity of the each document according to the number of themes by:
- determining that the each document is more specific if the each document has a lower number of themes;
- and
- determining that the each document is less specific if the each document has a higher number of themes;
- receive a search query comprising a document specificity request, the document specificity indicated using a slider;
- and
- retrieve one or more documents of the plurality of documents that satisfy the search query and the document specificity request.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.