Method for producing a document summary

Details Method for producing a document summary Method for producing a document summary

G - Physics

06

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G06F 17/28 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2566013

A method for producing a document summary from a document. The method includes: - associating with the document a specific category from a set of predetermined categories; - performing a thematic segmentation of the document to produce a segmented document, the segmented document including a plurality of text segments; - associating with each text segment from the plurality of text segments a theme selected from a set of predetermined themes; and - summarizing the segmented document to produce the document summary by processing each text segment from the plurality of text segments to either - select at least one summary textual unit from the text segment, the at least one summary textual unit including at least one word and being a textual unit considered important in summarizing the document; or - extract no textual unit from the text segment. The summary textual units are used to form the document summary. The thematic segmentation is dependent on the category to which the document is associated and the summary textual units are selected for each text segment depending on the theme with which the text segment is associated.

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