摘要 |
An apparatus and a method for identifying one of a plurality of documents stored in a computer-readable medium is disclosed. The method includes the steps of automatically identifying for a user keyword phrases in the plurality of documents (110), prompting the user to construct a query expression in which at least one of the keyword phrases is an operand (120), and identifying one of the plurality of documents based on the query expression (130). The identified document is presented to the user in the form of an abstract (140, 150). Identification of the keyword phrases and generation of the abstract are accomplished by linguistically analyzing the plurality of documents (140). A user interface featuring a tabbed index into either key words or key phrases in separately scrollable display areas provides indexing into the content of each screen area. |