System and method for automatically discovering a hierarchy of concepts from a corpus of documents
The invention is a method, system and computer program for automatically discovering concepts from a corpus of documents and automatically generating a labeled concept hierarchy. The method involves extraction of signatures from the corpus of documents. The similarity between signatures is computed using a statistical measure. The frequency distribution of signatures is refined to alleviate any inaccuracy in the similarity measure. The signatures are also disambiguated to address the polysemy problem. The similarity measure is recomputed based on the refined frequency distribution and disambiguated signatures. The recomputed similarity measure reflects actual similarity between signatures. The recomputed similarity measure is then used for clustering related signatures. The signatures are clustered to generate concepts and concepts are arranged in a concept hierarchy. The concept hierarchy automatically generates query for a particular concept and retrieves relevant documents associated with the concept.
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Jianchang Christina Yip Sumit Jinhui Alpha Vamsi
Mao Chung Taank Liu Luk Vutukuru