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Query generation system for an information retrieval system

  • US 9,069,861 B2
  • Filed: 05/29/2008
  • Issued: 06/30/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A query generation system comprising:

  • an element rank and inference engine in communication with a computing system and a user interface, the element rank and inference engine operable to;

    receive a plurality of terms from the user interface;

    derive, using latent semantic analysis one or more inferred terms from the plurality of received terms, the one or more inferred terms comprising terms not in the plurality of received terms;

    filter one or more of the plurality of received terms according to a specified criteria;

    display the filtered terms and the one or more inferred terms on the user interface, the filtered terms and the one or more inferred terms having a visual characteristic that varies according to the specified criteria;

    receive an additional term from the user interface;

    generate a query in accordance with the filtered terms, the one or more inferred terms, and the additional term; and

    transmit the query to a web search engine.

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