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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2005
David Carmel, Haifa, IL;
Adam Darlow, Haifa, IL;
Shai Fine, Ra'anana, IL;
Elad Yom-tov, Hoshaya, IL;
David Carmel, Haifa, IL;
Adam Darlow, Haifa, IL;
Shai Fine, Ra'anana, IL;
Elad Yom-Tov, Hoshaya, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system are provided of merging results in distributed information retrieval. A search manager is in communication with a plurality of components, wherein a component is a search engine working on a document collection and returning results in the form of a list of documents to a search query. The search manager submits a query to the plurality of components, receives results from each component in the form of a list of documents; estimates the success of a component in handling the query to generate a merit score for a component per query; applies the merit score to the results for the component; and merges results from the plurality of components by ranking in order of the applied merit score.