SEARCH RESULT PROCESSING
First Claim
1. A search result processing method which includes the following steps:
- receiving a list of documents, each document in the list of documents having previously been determined to be likely to be relevant to the subject matter of a user query;
determining a plurality of portions in each of the documents in the list of documents;
comparing a plurality of portions of a first document in the list of documents to portions of documents in the list of documents;
determining how often portions of the first document in the list of documents correspond to portions of other documents in the list of documents; and
scoring portions of the first document by determining how often portions of the first document correspond to portions of other documents in the list of documents.
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Abstract
A plurality of portions of a first document in a list of documents may be compared to portions of other documents in the list of documents. The documents may be scored by determining how often portions of the first document correspond to portions of other documents in the list of documents. A consensus may be reached as to correctness of portions of documents in the list of documents by crediting a portion of a document whenever it corresponds to a portion of another document. If desired, a linguistic parser may be used to identify portions of a document. It may be desired to use word stemming or a Bayesian reference network in comparing portions of documents. Advertising and/or other extraneous portions of the documents may be deleted. The documents may be ranked relative to each other as a function of how often portions of each document correspond to portions of other documents.
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28 Claims
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1. A search result processing method which includes the following steps:
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receiving a list of documents, each document in the list of documents having previously been determined to be likely to be relevant to the subject matter of a user query; determining a plurality of portions in each of the documents in the list of documents; comparing a plurality of portions of a first document in the list of documents to portions of documents in the list of documents; determining how often portions of the first document in the list of documents correspond to portions of other documents in the list of documents; and scoring portions of the first document by determining how often portions of the first document correspond to portions of other documents in the list of documents. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A search result processing method which includes the following steps:
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receiving a list of documents, each document in the list of documents having previously been determined to be likely to be relevant to the subject matter of a user query; determining a plurality of portions in each of the documents in the list of documents; comparing portions in each of the documents in the list of documents to each other; and reaching a consensus as to correctness of portions of the documents in the list of documents by crediting a portion of a document whenever it corresponds to a portion of another document and determining that portions of documents receiving the most credit are more likely to be correct than portions of documents receiving less credit. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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