SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODIFICATION IN COMPUTERIZED SEARCHING

• US 20100299342A1
• Filed: 05/22/2009
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NBC Universal Media LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NBC Universal Incorporated (GE Aerospace)
• Inventors: Gustafson, Steven Matt, Gujjar, Vineel Chandrakanth, Narayanan, Babu Ozhur, Paul, Samit
• Application Number:
  US12/471,115
• Publication Number:
  US 20100299342A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/759
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3338 Query expansion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation

Abstract

A system and method for conducting a computerized search, including: receiving a query from a user; classifying the query; augmenting the query based on the classification; issuing the query to a search engine; and conducting a search based on the augmented query. Alternatively, a system and method for conducting a computerized search, including: receiving a search query; analyzing a knowledge base; modifying the search query based on the analysis of the knowledge base; issuing the modified search query to a search engine; and conducting a search via the search engine based on the modified search query to generate search results.

Claims

1. A method for conducting a computerized search, comprising:

receiving at a processor a query from a user;

classifying the query via the processor;

augmenting the query via the processor based on the classification;

issuing the query to a search engine via the processor; and

conducting a search based on the augmented query via the search engine.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising returning results of the search to the user via the processor.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein classifying comprises classifying the query into a word sense disambiguation category.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein classifying comprises classifying the query via use of a thesaurus and a knowledge base.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein classifying comprises classifying the query into a perspective category.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein classifying classifying the query via analysis of a knowledge base.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein augmenting comprises adding at least one additional word to the query.

8. A method for conducting a computerized search, comprising:

receiving a search query at a processor;

analyzing a knowledge base via the processor;

modifying the search query via the processor based on the analysis of the knowledge base;

issuing the modified search query to a search engine via the processor; and

conducting a search via the search engine based on the modified search query to generate search results.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein modifying the search query comprises adding a word to the search query.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein modifying the search query comprises mapping and expanding the search query.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein analyzing the knowledge base comprises analyzing the knowledge base with respect to the search query.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the knowledge base comprises a set of documents.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the set of documents at least partially differs from information searched via the search engine.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the knowledge base provides a default context of the search query.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein modifying the search query comprises modifying the search query such that the search results are biased toward the knowledge base.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein the knowledge base comprises an off-line knowledge base not available on the Internet.

17. The method of claim 8, wherein the search results are not filtered.

18. A system for conducting a computerized search, comprising:

a classifier configured to classify a user search query for augmentation;

a first augmenter module configured to receive a user search query from the classifier and to augment the user search query;

a second augmenter module configured to receive a user search query from the classifier to augment a user search query; and

an engine module configured to issue an augmented user search query to a search engine from at least one of the first augmenter module or the second augmenter module.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the classifier is configured to classify the user search query based on word sense disambiguation for augmentation in the first augmenter module.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the first augmenter module provides augmented user query that is a word sense disambiguation query.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the classifier is configured to classify the user search query based on a perspective for augmentation in the second augmenter module.

22. The system of claim 18, wherein the first augmenter module provides augmented user query that is a perspective query.

23. The system of claim 18, wherein the enginer module comprises a meta-search engine module.

24. The system of claim 18, comprising a default query module configured to pass the user search query from the classifier to the engine module without augmentation.

25. A system for conducting a computerized search, comprising:

a server comprising executable code stored in memory, wherein the executable code is configured to;

receive a search query;

analyze a knowledge base;

modify the search query based on the analysis of the knowledge base;

issue the modified search query to a search engine; and

to conduct a search via the search engine based on the modified search query.