Method and system for retrieving confirming sentences

Details Method and system for retrieving confirming sentences Method and system for retrieving confirming sentences

2011-07-05

2011-07-05

Mofiz, Apu M (Department: 2161)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database and file access

Search engines

C707S723000, C707S748000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07974963

ABSTRACT:
A method, computer readable medium and system are provided which retrieve confirming sentences from a sentence database in response to a query. A search engine retrieves confirming sentences from the sentence database in response to the query. IN retrieving the confirming sentences, the search engine defines indexing units based upon the query, with the indexing units including both lemma from the query and extended indexing units associated with the query. The search engine then retrieves a plurality of sentences from the sentence database using the defined indexing units as search parameters. A similarity between each of the plurality of retrieved sentences and the query is determined by the search engine, wherein each similarity is determined as a function of a linguistic weight of a term in the query. The search engine then ranks the plurality of retrieved sentences based upon the determined similarities.

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