Information retrieval systems with database-selection aids
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- receiving a query at a server, said query directed to discovering one or more databases of a plurality of databases which will provide relevant search results from a search of documents stored on the respective one or more databases, wherein the query includes one or more query terms;
searching a set of sample-based database profiles based on the query, with each profile associated with a respective database of the plurality of databases and defined as a document representing terms or phrases and their corresponding frequencies; and
ranking relevance of two or more of the sample-based database profiles, wherein ranking relevance includes determining a relevance score for one or more of the database profiles based on frequency of one or more of the query terms within the database profile and based on frequency of the one or more of the query terms across the set of database profiles.
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Abstract
A method for enabling a user to search database profiles includes receiving user input categorizing an information need, and determining whether the user input corresponds to a first or a second type of category. In response to determining that the user input corresponds to the first category type, the method includes requesting user input defining a first query, and in response to receipt of the query, and executing the defined first query against a set of one or more databases based on the user input categorizing the information need. In response to determining that the user input corresponds to the second category type, the method includes requesting additional user input regarding the information need.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving a query at a server, said query directed to discovering one or more databases of a plurality of databases which will provide relevant search results from a search of documents stored on the respective one or more databases, wherein the query includes one or more query terms; searching a set of sample-based database profiles based on the query, with each profile associated with a respective database of the plurality of databases and defined as a document representing terms or phrases and their corresponding frequencies; and ranking relevance of two or more of the sample-based database profiles, wherein ranking relevance includes determining a relevance score for one or more of the database profiles based on frequency of one or more of the query terms within the database profile and based on frequency of the one or more of the query terms across the set of database profiles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method comprising:
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receiving a query including a plurality of terms at a server, said query directed to discovering one or more databases of a plurality of databases which will provide relevant search results from a search of documents stored on the respective one or more databases; identifying one or more terms of the query as belonging to one or more term categories; and determining search results based on the query, with at least one search result associated with a relevance score based on the identification of at least one of the terms, wherein identifying one or more of the terms includes determining that one or more of the terms is related to a location or a legal-practice area; and wherein determining search results based on the query includes computing a term-frequency-and-inverse-document-frequency-based score for the one term and up-weighting the computed score in response to the determination that the one term is related to a location or a legal practice area. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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receiving a query at a server; in response to receiving the query, identifying a plurality of documents relevant to the query, where each of the documents profiles a corresponding database, with at least one of the documents having a plurality of portions; and determining a relevance score for each identified document, wherein determining the relevance score for each of the documents having a plurality of portions includes; determining a plurality of portion relevance scores, with each portion relevance score quantifying relevance of a respective one of the portions to the received query; and determining the relevance score for the document based on one of the plurality of portion relevance scores, with the one of the plurality of portion relevance scores associated with a most relevant one of the portions of the document. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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