ARRANGING CONCEPT CLUSTERS IN THEMATIC NEIGHBORHOOD RELATIONSHIPS IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY

摘要

A set of clusters (50) is selected from a concept space. The concept spaceincludes clusters (50) with concepts (53) visualizing document content (49)based on extracted concepts (47). A theme in each of a plurality of theclusters (50) is identified. Each theme includes at least one such concept(53) ranked within the cluster (50). Unique candidate spines (55) is logicallyformed. Each candidate spine (55) includes clusters (50) commonly sharing atleast one such concept (54). The clusters (50) are assigned to one suchcandidate spine (55) having a substantially best fit. Each such sufficientlyunique best fit candidate spine (56) is identified and placed in a visualdisplay space (43). Each non-identified best fit candidate spine (56) isplaced in the visual display space (43) relative to an anchor cluster (60) onone such identified best fit candidate spine (56).