System and method for ranking reference documents
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1. A knowledge base containing a set of documents, wherein at least:
- some of the documents are referenced by other documents and wherein each referenced document is associated with a score based upon the number of other documents that reference the referenced document.
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Abstract
A method for knowledge mining a set of documents, wherein each particular document of the set of documents has been assigned a score based upon how many documents reference the particular document, is disclosed. The method includes entering search criteria into the knowledge mining application which then uses the search criteria to identify documents that match the search criteria within the set of documents, and receiving a list of the identified documents, wherein the list of identified documents are ranked by their score.
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1. A knowledge base containing a set of documents, wherein at least:
- some of the documents are referenced by other documents and wherein each referenced document is associated with a score based upon the number of other documents that reference the referenced document.
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5. A method for knowledge mining a set of documents, comprising:
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entering search criteria into a knowledge mining application which then uses the search criteria to identify documents that match the search criteria within the set of documents; and receiving a list of the identified documents, wherein the list of identified documents are ranked by a weighted reference score assigned to each identified document, and wherein the weighted reference score for each particular document is based upon how many documents reference the particular document. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A knowledge mining application that receives criteria for searching a set of documents, identifies a set of result documents within the set of documents that match the criteria, assigns a score to each result document based upon the number of documents that reference that result document, and ranks the order of the search results based upon the assigned score.
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13. A method for searching a set of documents, comprising:
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receiving search criteria; identifying documents that match the search criteria; assigning a weighted reference score to each identified document, wherein the weighted reference score is based upon the number of documents in the set of documents that reference the identified document; and generating a list of the identified documents, wherein the set of documents are ranked according to each document'"'"'s assigned weighted reference score. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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