Xerox Corporation

Jutta Williamowski

Uwe M Borghoff

Shourya Roy

Yves Hoppenot

Antonietta Grasso

Remo Pareschi

Divya Padmanabhan

The application discloses systems and methods for physically sharing a hard copy of a document. The systems and methods include presenting to a user a graphical user interface having printing options for printing the document, where the graphical user interface has an input for receiving an indication by the user that the user is willing to share the hard copy of the document; presenting to the user options for defining characteristics of the hard copy of the document in response to receiving the indication; and publishing at least one of the defined characteristics within a profile page of the user.

System and method to implement sharing of paper documents using virtual currency

An information retrieval system for retrieving information from multiple information sources. The information retrieval system provides for the building of dynamic queries through the use of query channels. A query channel permits the passing of attributes of the search results between different queries. The query channel can cause the automatic passing of the attributes, or it can be user controlled (breakpoints). Further, the query results may be transformed so that they are in the context of the target query (computational transformations). For example, the results may be translated or reformatted into a form utilized by the target query. Query channels are created based on graphical representations of queries and their attributes. A simple drag and drop operation, wherein an attribute is selected and dragged to the target query, is used to create the channel. A channel may be created while a query is running. Specification of breakpoints or computational transformations are made using a pop-up window interface that may appear when the channel is selected.

System and method for transferring attribute values between search queries in an information retrieval system

An information retrieval system providing for cross-lingual information retrieval. The method as implemented in the system causes elementary words to be extracted from a search expression. These elementary words are translated and stemmed into the target language(s). Searches are then made for documents containing combinations of the stemmed and translated elementary words. When documents are retrieved they are verified that they contain the same linguistic structure as the initial search expression. Documents that cannot be verified are eliminated from the set of search documents returned to the user.

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Jutta Williamowski