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Search engine with increased performance and specificity

  • US 20070143273A1
  • Filed: 12/08/2006
  • Published: 06/21/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A search engine for searching and retrieving information from a data repository comprising:

  • a pre-processing component that modifies the records of the data repository wherein;

    i. the concepts of the language are identified in each record;

    ii. term ambiguity and term synonymy are resolved;

    iii. compound or complex semantic units are processed and simplified;

    iv. presence and type of relationships between terms are detected; and

    v. anaphoric terms and sortal anaphoric noun phrases are resolved, and the actual entities they refer to are identified;

    a new, second data repository where the data is stored in the pre-processed, modified representation, containing all the concept IDs and the relation types;

    a user interface wherein the user enters a query, and where the user query is translated to concept IDs of the language;

    a data engine wherein concept IDs of the user query are matched against the concept IDs of the data records of said second data repository, and where the matching records are returned according to a relevance metric calculated for each data record; and

    a multitude of computing hardware wherein said pre-processing component, second data repository, said user interface, and said data engine operate simultaneously and in parallel in response to a single user query.

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