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Dynamic content organization in information retrieval systems

  • US 6,236,987 B1
  • Filed: 04/03/1998
  • Issued: 05/22/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer-implemented method of creating a topic arrangement for a set of documents resulting from a query on a document collection, each document in the document collection associate-d with at least one topic, various ones of the topics having semantically related subtopics, each subtopic being a semantic refinement of its topic, each topic being a semantic generalization of its subtopics, the method comprising:

  • receiving a set of documents satisfying the query;

    receiving a first selection of at least one topic derived from the query;

    receiving a user selection of a type of topic arrangement from a plurality of topic arrangements for displaying topics semantically related to the first selected topic;

    responsive to the user selection of the type of topic arrangement, selecting a set of topics for the topic arrangement as the set of topics which optimizes a predetermined set of parameters associated with the determined type of topic arrangement and the selected topic; and

    displaying the topic arrangement including the selected topics.

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