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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2018
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Chuan Wang, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeshi Onishi, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A search apparatus includes a request acquisition unit that acquires a search request from a user, a search processing unit that executes a search process on a basis of a search target designated in the search request, an information acquisition unit acquires user-related information related to the user, a selection unit, a selection unit, and a providing unit. The selection unit selects, as information expected by the user, a piece of search result information highly relevant to the user-related information if the search processing unit acquires, as search results, multiple pieces of information having mutually different semantic contents and being multiple pieces of search result information from among the multiple pieces of search result information having the different semantic contents. The providing unit provides the user with the information expected by the user selected by the selection unit as a search result responding to the search request.