Method of document searching
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Abstract
A method for searching documents, which uses a concept based retrieval methodology, uses for any query an adaptive self-generating neural network for analyzing concepts contained in the documents being searched as such concepts occur. The method automatically creates, abstracts and populates categories of concepts for each query, and is not restricted to language, but can also be applied to non-text data, such as voice, music, image and film. The method is able to deliver search results that are relevant to the query and to the context of the query and, therefore, arranges results by concept, rather than keyword occurrence.
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1-12. -12. (canceled)
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13. A method for searching documents by identifying concepts in both a natural language query and in an unstructured data collection, said method comprising the steps of:
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matching concepts in a query to concepts in data for locating relevant items in a collection being searched; and
,clustering the relevant items together into groups wherein members of each group of said groups are conceptually related. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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