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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2004
Sihem Amer-yahia, New York, NY (US);
Maria F. Fernandez, Madison, NJ (US);
Divesh Srivastava, Summit, NJ (US);
Yu Xu, La Jolla, CA (US);
Sihem Amer-Yahia, New York, NY (US);
Maria F. Fernandez, Madison, NJ (US);
Divesh Srivastava, Summit, NJ (US);
Yu Xu, La Jolla, CA (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of searching a document having nested-structure document-specific markup (such as Extensible Markup Language (XML)) involvesreceiving a query that designates at least (A) a phrase to be matched in a phrase matching process, and (B) a selective designation of at least a tag or annotation that is to be ignored during the phrase matching process. The method further involvesderiving query-specific indices based on query-independent indices that were created specific to each document, andcarrying out the phrase matching process using the query-specific indices on the document having the nested-structure document-specific markup.