CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN REDUCINGAND/OR REPRESENTING TEXT CONTENT OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT

摘要

A concept identification system useful in reducing and/or representing text content of an electronic document and in highlighting the content of the document. A concept knowledge base comprises a plurality of concepts and eac h concept comprises one or more subconcepts linked to each other and to the concept on a hierarchical basis. One or more of the subconcepts may be linke d to one or more subconcepts of another concept. A concept matching module matches text of the document to subconcepts of the concept knowledge base an d assesses any links between the matched subconcepts and other concepts and/or subconcepts of the concept knowledge base. From this a determination is made of whether the document relates to a concept of the knowledge base. With an identification of such concept a document representation generator may produ ce a precis of the document based on a template associated with such concept. F or highlighting of a document a highlighter module determines key content of th e input document and an interface integrates the concept identification system and the highlighter module. An output module produces an output highlight document from the key content.