Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1998-05-21
2000-05-16
Amsbury, Wayne
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
G06F 1730
Patent
active
06065001&
ABSTRACT:
An information associating apparatus comprising a query extraction unit which compiles for at least each search user the queries that were used in a past predetermined time interval taken from data comprising queries used in order to search for information from a database; a preprocessing unit which calculates the parameters necessary for calculating the association degree between key words included in queries extracted for each search user by said query extraction unit, and an association degree calculation unit which calculates the association degree between key words using the parameters calculated by the preprocessing unit.
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M. Ohkubo et al., "Extracting the Trends of Information Demands by Analyzing a WWW Search Log", Information Processing Society of Japan SIG Notes 97-DD-7, May 1997.
M. Ohkubo et al., "Extracting Information Needs by WWW Search Log Analysis", 55.sup.th National conference of Information Processing Society of Japan, 2AC-5, Sep. 1997.
Inoue Takafumi
Ohkubo Masaaki
Sugizaki Masayuki
Tanaka Kazuo
Amsbury Wayne
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
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