A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIOLOGICAL DATA MINING

摘要

A processing system for retrieving interrelated documents is described. Thesystem comprises a document repository (130) for storing a plurality ofdocuments, a metadata repository (140, 145) for storing a plurality ofmetadata elements to represent relations between the documents, and asociological analysis engine (150) to identify relationships between thedocuments using the metadata elements from the metadata repository (140, 145).