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Method for cross-linguistic document retrieval

  • US 6,055,528 A
  • Filed: 07/25/1997
  • Issued: 04/25/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of retrieving documents from a database, comprising:

  • generating a query in a first language;

    parsing said query into a plurality of terms;

    translating said plurality of terms into a second language;

    listing a plurality of permutations of said translated terms;

    testing each of said permutations against each document of said database to generate a score indicating the relevance of each of said permutations to each of said documents; and

    retrieving documents from said database based on said score.

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