Janet E Russell

US Patent:

43588247, Nov 9, 1982

Filed:

Dec 28, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/107994

Inventors:

David Glickman - Frederick MD
James T. Repass - Round Rock TX
Walter S. Rosenbaum - Bethesda MD
Janet G. Russell - Bethesda MD

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1540

US Classification:

364200

Abstract:

A system that intelligently abstracts and archives a document for storage and interprets a free form user retrieval query to recall the document from the storage file. The system includes a method for automatically selecting keywords from the document using a parts of a speech directory. A method is given for weighing the importance or centrality of each keyword with respect to the document of its origin. Using the same logic paths, a free form query that describes the document in the same manner that it would have to be described to a secretary to "find" it in a filing cabinet, the system automatically determines the key matching terms and finds the archived document(s) with the greatest affinity.