METHOD FOR RE-RANKING DOCUMENTS RETRIEVED FROM A MULTI-LINGUAL DOCUMENT DATABASE
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for processing multi-lingual documents in a document database comprising:
- generating an initial ranking of retrieved multi-lingual documents using an information retrieval system and based upon a user search query;
processing a plurality of vocabulary words based upon occurrences thereof in at least some of the retrieved multi-lingual documents;
generating respective relevancies of the vocabulary words based on the occurrences thereof and the user search query; and
generating a re-ranking of the retrieved multi-lingual documents based on the relevancies of the vocabulary words.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for processing documents in a multi-lingual document database includes generating an initial ranking of retrieved multi-lingual documents using an information retrieval system and based upon a user search query, and processing vocabulary words based upon occurrences thereof in at least some of the retrieved multi-lingual documents. Respective relevancies of the vocabulary words based on the occurrences thereof and the user search query are generated. A re-ranking of the retrieved multi-lingual documents is generated based on the relevancies of the vocabulary words.
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30 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for processing multi-lingual documents in a document database comprising:
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generating an initial ranking of retrieved multi-lingual documents using an information retrieval system and based upon a user search query;
processing a plurality of vocabulary words based upon occurrences thereof in at least some of the retrieved multi-lingual documents;
generating respective relevancies of the vocabulary words based on the occurrences thereof and the user search query; and
generating a re-ranking of the retrieved multi-lingual documents based on the relevancies of the vocabulary words. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer-implemented method for processing multi-lingual documents in a document database, the multi-lingual documents having an initial ranking based upon a user search query, the method comprising;
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selecting N top ranked documents from the retrieved multi-lingual documents, with N being an integer greater than 1;
processing a plurality of vocabulary words based upon occurrences thereof in the N top ranked documents;
generating respective relevancies of the vocabulary words based on the occurrences thereof in the N top ranked documents and the user search query;
generating a re-ranking of the N top ranked documents based on the relevancies of the vocabulary words; and
displaying the re-ranked multi-lingual documents. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure for processing documents in a multi-lingual document database, the computer-readable medium comprising:
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a first data field for generating an initial ranking of retrieved multi-lingual documents using an information retrieval system and based upon a user search query;
a second data field for processing a plurality of vocabulary words based upon occurrences thereof in at least some of the retrieved multi-lingual documents;
a third data field for generating respective relevancies of the vocabulary words based on the occurrences thereof and the user search query; and
a fourth data field for generating a re-ranking of the retrieved multi-lingual documents based on the relevancies of the vocabulary words. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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