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Relevance-weighted navigation in information access, search and retrieval

  • US 20080189269A1
  • Filed: 11/06/2007
  • Published: 08/07/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for computing summary information on documents containing hierarchical named scopes comprising a plurality of associations between a scope and a value or between a scope and a value-weight pair, wherein the method comprises steps forapplying a query to a set of documents, and identifying a result set of matching documents and query-dependent subsections of the matching documents,and wherein the method ischaracterized by an additional step for computing summary information on document scopes, their values, and associated weights across the result set, andweighting the values with a summary value metric (SVM), said summary value metric being a combination of weighted statistical and dynamic properties of an attribute value, thus providing a measure of the probability of the attribute value.

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