System and method for annotating documents using a viewer
View Patent ↗Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for annotating documents in a viewer. In one embodiment, the method includes: associating the document with a user; identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document; augmenting the document by making words within the document selectable; displaying the augmented document in the viewer; and responsive to each user input selecting a word in the document displayed in the viewer, further augmenting the document displayed in the viewer by inserting the selected word following the sub-document element from which the word was selected.
1. A method for annotating a document in a viewer, comprising:
associating the document with a user;
identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document;
computing a similarity measure from content of the identified one or more sub-document elements in the document;
identifying one or more other sub-document elements in one or more further non-identical documents stored in a database, each of the one or more other sub-document elements associated with one or more annotations, with comparable similarity measures to the one or more sub-document elements in the document;
augmenting the document, comprising:
making words within the document selectable;
responsive to each user input selecting a word in the document, inserting the selected word following the sub-document element from which the word was selected;
inserting the one or more annotations associated with the identified one or more other sub-document elements with comparable similarity measures following the sub-document element in the document; and
storing in a database a record that associates the user with the computed similarity measure of the sub-document element's content and the selected words and storing with the record a URL of the document as a URL/USER pair in a bi-graph matrix for generating spreading activation computation profiles; and
displaying the augmented document in the viewer.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said augmenting further comprises inserting the selected word in a tagging comment field.
3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said augmenting further comprises making in a list one or more of frequently and recently used keywords in the document selectable.
4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said augmenting further comprises inserting a user name label of the user associated with the document after the sub-document element and before the tagging comment field.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each word is made selectable using a bounding box.
6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the bounding box includes a plurality of words.
7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the document is a web page.
8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising displaying the selected word following the sub-document element with a different appearance from the sub-document element.
9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the similarity measure is a unique identifier that uniquely identifies sub-document elements.
10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more sub-document elements are a type selected from the group consisting of words, images, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, pages, sections, and chapters.
11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sub-document elements are a plurality of types selected from the group consisting of words, images, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, pages, sections, and chapters.
12. A method for annotating a document in a viewer, comprising:
associating the document with a user;
identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document;
computing a similarity measure from content of the identified one or more sub-document elements in the document;
identifying one or more other sub-document elements in one or more further non-identical documents stored in a database, each of the one or more other sub-document elements associated with one or more annotations, with comparable similarity measures to the one or more sub-document elements in the document;
augmenting the document, comprising:
inserting a tagging comment field after identified sub-document elements;
responsive to each user input selecting a word in the document, inserting the selected word in the tagging comment field corresponding to the sub-document element from which the word was selected;
inserting the one or more annotations associated with the identified one or more other sub-document elements with comparable similarity measures following the sub-document element in the document; and
storing in a database a record that associates the user with the computed similarity measure of the sub-document element's content and the selected words and storing with the record a URL of the document as a URL/USER pair in a bi-graph matrix for generating spreading activation computation profiles; and
displaying the augmented document in the viewer.
13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein said augmenting further comprises inserting a user name label of the user associated with the document after the sub-document element and before the tagging comment field.
14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the similarity measure is a unique identifier that uniquely identifies sub-document elements.
15. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the sub-document element is a paragraph.
16. The method according to claim 12 , wherein said augmenting further comprises augmenting the document by making each word within the document selectable using a bounding box.
17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein said augmenting further comprises making in a list one or more of frequently and recently used keywords in the document selectable.
18. A method for annotating a document in a viewer, comprising:
identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document;
computing a unique identifier from content of the identified sub-document elements in the document;
identifying one or more other sub-document elements in one or more further non-identical documents stored in a database, each of the one or more other sub-document elements associated with one or more annotations, with comparable unique identifiers to the one or more sub-document elements in the document;
augmenting the located sub-document elements of the document, comprising:
responsive to each user input selecting a word in the document, inserting the selected word following the sub-document element from which the word was selected; and
inserting the one or more annotations associated with the identified one or more other sub-document elements with comparable similarity measures following the sub-document element in the document; and
storing in a database a record that associates the user with the computed similarity measure of the sub-document element's content and the selected words and storing with the record a URL of the document as a URL/USER pair in a bi-graph matrix for generating spreading activation computation profiles;
displaying the augmented document in the viewer; and
recording in the database the selected word and the computed unique identifier of the sub-document element from which the word was selected.