AUTOMATIC QUERY REFINEMENT

Patent №

US 6,941,297

Granted

2005-09-06

Filed 2002

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

3

ml · nlp · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10210826

A method for Automatic Query Refinement, the method including extracting at least one lexical affinity from at least one document in a search result set of documents, the set resulting from the application of a first query to a document search engine, adding the lexical affinity to the first query, thereby forming a new query, and applying the new query to the document search engine, resulting in a new search result set.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning0.91
Planning0.71
Knowledge representation0.20
AI hardware0.14
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 131710106

Assignors

CARMEL, DAVID, FARCHI, EITAN, PETRUSCHKA, YAEL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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