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7383246 System, method, and computer program product for progressive query processing  
A method, system, and computer program product to make query processing more robust in the face of optimization errors. The invention validates the statistics and assumptions used for compiling a...
7376641 Information retrieval from a collection of data  
A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, generating an inverse index of the collection of data and generating results to the query in conjunction with...
7356527 Lossy index compression  
An apparatus and method is provided for pruning an index of a corpus of text documents by creating an inverted index of terms appearing in the documents, wherein the index includes postings of the...
7343372 Direct navigation for information retrieval  
A method of document retrieval is provided. The method includes assigning concept labels to documents contained in a collection according to grammar rules, receiving a query, converting the query...
7330811 Method and system for adapting synonym resources to specific domains  
A method and system for processing synonyms that adapts a general-purpose synonym resource to a specific domain. The method selects out a domain-specific subset of synonyms from the set of...
7325201 System and method for manipulating content in a hierarchical data-driven search and navigation system  
A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable search and navigation of sets of materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. A...
7283992 Media agent to suggest contextually related media content  
The described arrangements and procedures provide an intelligent media agent to autonomously collect semantic multimedia data text descriptions on behalf of a user whenever and wherever the user...
7272594 Method and apparatus to link to a related document  
A method, apparatus, and system exist to generate a ranked list of one or more related documents and a link to each of the one or more related documents. The one or more related documents are...
7269545 Method for retrieving answers from an information retrieval system  
The invention is a method for retrieving answers to questions from an information retrieval system. The method involves automatically learning phrase features for classifying questions into...
7268791 Systems and methods for visualization of data sets containing interrelated objects  
A visualization of a set of related data items is accomplished by ranking a plurality of secondary data items with respect to their relationship to a principal data item. The set of related data...
7243095 Prose feedback in information access system  
A method of generating prose in response to a query includes generating a text frame from the query and processing the text frame in conjunction with grammar rules to produce a prose rendition of...
7231381 Media content search engine incorporating text content and user log mining  
Text features corresponding to pieces of media content (e.g., images, audio, multimedia content, etc.) are extracted from media content sources. One or more text features (e.g., one or more words)...
7200587 Method of searching similar document, system for performing the same and program for processing the same  
A similar document search method includes a step of extracting a characteristic word candidate as a candidate for a characteristic word from a seeds document including desired retrieval contents, a...
7165024 Inferring hierarchical descriptions of a set of documents  
A method automatically determines groups of words or phrases that are descriptive names of a small set of documents, as well as infers concepts in the small set of documents that are more general...
7127452 Image search apparatus, image search method and storage medium  
There are provided an image search apparatus, and an image search method, which make it easier for a user to reach an image desired to be searched, by rearranging images to which keywords matching...
7111002 Relevance maximizing, iteration minimizing, relevance-feedback, content-based image retrieval (CBIR)  
An implementation of a technology, described herein, for relevance-feedback, content-based facilitating accurate and efficient image retrieval minimizes the number of iterations for user feedback...
7062483 Hierarchical data-driven search and navigation system and method for information retrieval  
A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable search and navigation of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize...
7035864 Hierarchical data-driven navigation system and method for information retrieval  
A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable search of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The...
6947930 Systems and methods for interactive search query refinement  
A received query is processed so as to generate an initial group of ranked documents corresponding to the received query. Each document in all or a portion of the documents in the initial group of...
6721728 System, method and apparatus for discovering phrases in a database  
A phrase discovery is a method of identifying sequences of terms in a database. First, a selection of one or more relevant sequences of terms, such as relevant text, is provided. Next, several...
6584458 Method and apparatuses for creating a full text index accommodating child words  
A computer system and method for information indexing and retrieval. The full text index can searchably accommodate linguistic, phonetic, conceptual, contextual and other types of relational and...
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