Method and system for visual cues to facilitate navigation through an ordered set of documents

摘要

Systems and methods for organizing a repository of unstructured documents into groups of ordered reading lists, i.e., document trails, comprising an ordered list of documents that relate to each by subject matter. Text analytics and natural language processing steps group documents, chose the most important/relevant documents from each group, and organize the documents into a suggested reading order. Document fragments are also analyzed by such analytic and processing steps to identify preselected fragment characteristic aspects. Documents within each document trail may be marked up or highlighted to indicate which paragraphs therein contain such aspects as novel or useful information, or information that is not useful or redundant.

主权项

1. A method of using visual cues to facilitate navigation through an ordered set of documents, comprising:
organizing the set of documents by a relationship to a topic as a document trail wherein the documents are prioritized in a logical reading order in the trail based on usefulness to a user; displaying a document to the user via a reader/display interface wherein the document is comprised of document fragments of content; and applying a readable visual cue to a fragment to highlight the fragment text during the displaying indicating a characteristic aspect of the logical reading order and the fragment relative to the topic and other fragments of other documents in the document trail including indicating a character aspect from one of newness, novelty, redundancy, and current relative position of a presented document in the trail with each having a different highlighting, wherein the character aspect is related to content of other documents in the ordered set of documents.