SUMMARIZING AND NAVIGATING DATA USING COUNTING GRIDS

摘要

A browsable counting grid may be created that allows users to browse a document corpus through a visual/spatial interface. The counting grid may be created in a way that allows documents to be spatially organized by their subject matter, based on the words contained in the documents. The browsable counting grid may have various features that facilitate the user's navigation of a document corpus.

主权项

1. A system for browsing a corpus of documents, the system comprising:
a memory; a processor; a counting grid creator that is stored in said memory, that executes on said processor, and that creates a counting grid from said corpus of documents in which each word that appears in said documents is mapped to a location on said counting grid, and in which documents are mapped to locations in said counting grid based on a correspondence between words in said documents and words in neighborhoods of said locations; and a browsable document presenter that is stored in said memory, that executes on said processor, and that presents an interactive visual representation of said counting grid which is navigable by a user to allow the user to point to a location on said representation and to display sets of documents that map to a window around said location.