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ARTICLE AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY FILTERING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL RESULTS USING TEXT GENRE

  • US 20020002450A1
  • Filed: 06/18/1998
  • Published: 01/03/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/02/1997
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A processor implemented method of searching a heterogeneous corpus of untagged machine-readable texts, each text of the corpus having a text genre and a topic, the corpus including at least a first text genre and a second text genre, the corpus including a multiplicity of topics, the processor implemented method comprising the steps of:

  • a) searching the corpus for a first multiplicity of texts that have a first topic;

    b) identifying a first set of texts of the first multiplicity that are instances of the first text genre;

    c) identifying a second set of texts of the first multiplicity that are instances of the second text genre; and

    d) identifying the first multiplicity of texts to a computer user in an order based upon the first type and the second type of text genre.

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