A DOCUMENT CATEGORISATION SYSTEM

摘要

A document categorisation system, including a clusterer for generating clusters of related electronic documents based on features extracted from said documents, and a filter module for generating a filter on the basis of said clusters to categorise further documents received by said system. The system may include an editor for manually browsing and modifying the clusters. The categorisation of the documents is based on n-grams, which are used to determine significant features of the documents. The system includes a trend analyzer for determining trends of changing document categories over time, and for identifying novel clusters. The system may be implemented as a plug-in module for a spreadsheet application, providing a convenient means for one-off or ongoing analysis of text entries in a worksheet.