Context-sensitive term expansion with multiple levels of...

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2009-11-06

2011-12-27

Pham, Khanh (Department: 2166)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database and file access

Record, file, and data search and comparisons

C707S759000, C707S767000, C707S783000, C707S784000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08086623

ABSTRACT:
Articles of manufacture and systems for searching collections of data using context sensitive expanded term searching are provided. The collection of data may be a relational database, text document, or any other type of searchable collection of data. In either case, a query including a search condition based on a specified search term may be modified to include additional conditions based on a set of expanded (e.g., conceptually-related) search terms. For some embodiments, a user may be given the ability to control the level of expansion and the context in which the terms may be expanded.

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