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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2000
Nobuyuki Igata, Kanagawa, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A user inputs a retrieval query represented by a set of propositions using a modal operator through an interface. The retrieval query is passed to a document set gathering unit through a retrieval input unit. The document set gathering unit refers to an index, gathers a set of documents having a true proposition, and writes it to a work area. A similarity computation unit computes the similarity of the gathered set of documents and writes it to the work area. The retrieval result output unit refers to the work area, ranks the gathered sets of documents in consideration of a true/false value and a similarity, and the ranking result to the interface as a retrieval result. A common keyword extraction unit extracts a keyword for output from the ranked sets of documents, and outputs the keyword after adding a corresponding modal operator to the keyword to the interface.