摘要 |
A computer method of gathering and summarizing large amounts of information comprises collecting information from a plurality of information sources ( 14, 51 ) according to respective maps ( 52 ) of the information sources ( 14 ), converting the collected information from a storage format to XML-language documents ( 26, 53 ) and storing the XML-language documents in a storage medium, searching for documents ( 55 ) according to a search query ( 13 ) having at least one term and identifying the documents ( 26 ) found in the search, and displaying the documents as nodes ( 33 ) of a tree structure ( 32 ) having links ( 34 ) and nodes ( 33 ) so as to indicate similarity of the documents to each other.
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