METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING TOPIC-RELEVANCE HIGHLIGHTING OF ELECTRONIC TEXT

摘要

Topic-relevance highlighting of electronic text is described that includes categorizing words in the electronic text into several classes, determining the relevance weight for each word based on their relevance to one or more classes, and then color-coding words according to their classes. Each class represents a specific topic of interest and is assigned a distinctive color. Words or phrases in the electronic text belonging to the same class would be highlighted with the same distinctive color. Accordingly, users can instantly identify whether the document is relevant, to which topic of interest the document is relevant, and the relevant portions of the document page which match users' interests.

主权项

1. A method for performing topic-relevance highlighting of electronic text in one or more documents, comprising:
categorizing a plurality of words in the electronic text into one or more classes, wherein each class represents a topic of interest; determining one or more relevance weights for the plurality of words based on their relevance to the one or more classes; and color-coding the plurality of words according to their one or more relevance weights such that one or more words of the plurality of words categorized into the same class with the same topic of interest are highlighted with the same distinctive color.