METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING PREDICTIONS ABOUT ENTITIES REPRESENTED IN DOCUMENTS

摘要

A method and apparatus is disclosed for making predictions about entities represented in documents and for information analysis of text documents or the like, from a large number of such documents. Predictive models (80) are executed responsive to variables (70) derived from canonical documents (60) to determine documents containing desired attributes or characteristics. The canonical documents are derived from standardized documents (30), which in turn are derived from original documents.