Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-11-12
1999-09-14
Black, Thomas G.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 1, 707 2, 707 3, 707 4, 707 6, 707 7, 707101, 707104, G06F 1730
Patent
active
059537183
ABSTRACT:
A research mode in a search and retrieval system generates a research document that infers an answer to a query from multiple documents. The search and retrieval system includes point of view gists for documents to provide a synopsis for a corresponding document with a slant toward a topic. To generate a research document, the search and retrieval system processes a query to identify one or more topics related to the query, selects document themes relevant to the query, and then selects point of view gists, based on the document themes, that have a slant towards the topics related to the query. A knowledge base, which includes categories arranged hierarchically, is configured as a directed graph to links those categories having a lexical, semantic or usage association. Through use of the knowledge base, an expanded set of query terms are generated, and research documents are compiled that include point of view gists relevant to the expanded set of query terms. A content processing system, which identifies the themes for a document and classifies the document themes in categories of the knowledge base, is also disclosed.
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Black Thomas G.
Mizrahi Diane D.
Oracle Corporation
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