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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2008
Filed:
May. 10, 2002
Sankar Basu, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Milind R. Naphade, Urbana, IL (US);
John R. Smith, New Hyde Park, NY (US);
Sankar Basu, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Milind R. Naphade, Urbana, IL (US);
John R. Smith, New Hyde Park, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program for adaptively processing a query search. An expanding operation is utilized to expand the query into sub-queries, wherein at least one of the sub-queries is expanded probabilistically. A retrieving operation retrieves the results of the sub-queries, and a merging operation is used to merge the sub-query results into a search result. An adapting operation is configured to modify the search such that the relevance of the search result is increased when the search is repeated.