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Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Michele Crudele, Rome, IT;

Antonio Perrone, Rome, IT;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/36 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/334 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/36 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01);
Abstract

A solution is proposed for ranking a plurality of documents in a computing system, each of the documents comprising a plurality of document terms. A corresponding method comprises receiving a query comprising one or more query terms for selecting the documents, calculating corresponding similarity indexes between the query and the documents, each of the similarity indexes being calculated according to a comparison between the query terms and the document terms of the corresponding document, determining corresponding semantic richness indicators of the documents, adjusting the similarity indexes according to the corresponding semantic richness indicators, and ranking at least part of the documents for selection thereof according to the corresponding similarity indexes being adjusted.


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