Methods for semantics-based citation-pairing information

US8959112B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8959112-B2
Application numberUS-201313760288-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateFeb 6, 2013
Priority dateAug 26, 2010
Publication dateFeb 17, 2015
Grant dateFeb 17, 2015

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A computer-implemented method of semantically linking, by a computing device, a citing document to a cited document in a corpus of documents includes locating at least one citation present in the citing document, determining a reason-for-citing for at least one citation, and determining a cited-text-area present in the cited document, wherein the cited-text-area corresponds with the reason-for-citing. The method further includes populating a citation entry of a citation-pairing metadata file with a citing-document identifier, a reason-for-citing identifier, a cited-document identifier, and a cited-text-area identifier. The citation-pairing metadata file includes a plurality of citation entries and is stored separately from the citing document and the cited document.

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What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method of semantically linking a citing document to a cited document in a document corpus, the method comprising: determining a cited-text-area present in the cited document, wherein the cited-text-area corresponds with a reason-for-citing of at least one citation present in the citing document, and the cited-text-area is determined by: semantically comparing the reason-for-citing in the citing document with reasons-for-citing in the…

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What does patent US8959112B2 cover?
A computer-implemented method of semantically linking, by a computing device, a citing document to a cited document in a corpus of documents includes locating at least one citation present in the citing document, determining a reason-for-citing for at least one citation, and determining a cited-text-area present in the cited document, wherein the cited-text-area corresponds with the reason-for-…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Lexisnexis Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G06F17/30542. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Feb 17 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).