Identifying relevant portions of a document

Details Identifying relevant portions of a document Identifying relevant portions of a document

2011-08-23

2011-08-23

Mofiz, Apu M (Department: 2161)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database and file access

Post processing of search results

C707S729000, C707S731000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08005825

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and associated systems, methods, and computer program products relate to identifying types of search query terms based on the location of information that matches the search query terms. The query terms may be assigned weights according to the query type. The assigned weights may be used, in conjunction with a scoring rule, to determine a score that indicates how relevant blocks of information in the selected document are to the search query terms. In one example, query terms that are located in the title or the URL information associated with a document are classified as a query type that is assigned little or no weight. In this way, relevance scoring within a document may be improved by discounting the influence of query terms that are likely to be primarily meaningful for locating (i.e., navigating to) a relevant document, but less meaningful for locating relevant information within a document.

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