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System And Method For Providing A Topic-Directed Search

  • US 20100057716A1
  • Filed: 01/15/2009
  • Published: 03/04/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented system for providing a topic-directed search, comprising:

  • articles of digital information and one or more indexes comprising topics that each relate to one or more of the articles, that are both electronically-stored in persistent storage;

    a computer comprising a processor and memory within which code for execution by the processor is stored, comprising;

    a topic builder that, for each topic, builds a coarse-grained topic model comprising the characteristic words comprised in the articles relating to the topic and scores assigned to the characteristic words; and

    a search engine executing a search query comprising search terms against one of the indexes, and choosing the topics that match the search terms by their scores; and

    a user interface visually presenting the topics that match the chosen coarse-grained topic models and the articles corresponding to the search query.

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