Method and apparatus for electronically extracting application specific multidimensional information from a library of searchable documents and for providing the application specific information to a user application

摘要

An apparatus and method are disclosed for electronically extracting application specific multidimensional information from a library of electronically searchable documents, wherein at least one dimension of the information is a category, which may comprise an automatic document miner in communication with the contents of the library and adapted to electronically extract relevant documents from the library; an E-Space filter creator adapted to create from the extracted relevant documents a category specific representation of the extracted relevant documents comprising the E-Space filter; a document selector adapted to utilize the E-Space filter to separate the extracted relevant documents into member documents and non-member documents and to discard the non-member documents; and an application specific multidimensional information extractor adapted to extract occurrences of application specific multidimensional information from the member documents. The apparatus and method may also comprise an application specific multidimensional information verification unit adapted to verify the extraction of application specific multidimensional information from the member documents, and a database storing the application specific multidimensional information adapted to provide an application running on a user computing device access to the application specific multidimensional information. The automatic document miner may comprise at least one seeded network search agent. The E-Space filter creator may comprise a concept definer adapted to create a concept of the application specific multidimensional information and may utilize a latent index sequencer. The application specific word extractor may comprise a concept based key-word extractor.