Auto-population of a table

摘要

Automatically generating and/or populating a table is described. In some embodiments, in response to receiving an indication to include data from a set of documents in a table, each of at least a subset of documents included in the set of documents is parsed to identify a set of one or more common elements, a table with a structure derived from at least a subset of the set of common elements is generated, and an entry for each of one or more documents in the set of documents included in the table is populated with data values extracted from the content of that document.

主权项

1. A system for automatically populating a table, comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive an indication to include into a table data from a first document and a second document;parse the first document and the second document to identify a set of one or more common elements that are included in each of the first document and the second document by searching the first document and the second document for a prescribed set of elements, wherein the prescribed set of elements comprises a user-specified query by which to search the first document and the second document;present a prompt to select at least a subgroup of common elements from among the identified set of the one or more common elements, wherein the subgroup of common elements is selected to be header values of a corresponding subset of the identified set of the one or more common elements;generate the table, wherein the table comprises the selected header values comprising or derived from at least the subset of the set of the one or more common elements; andpopulate an entry into the table for each of the first document and the second document comprising data extracted from content of the first document and the second document, wherein each entry is aligned in the table with respect to corresponding header values of the table; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.