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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2015
Camelot Uk Bidco Limited, London, GB;
Raphael Shmuel Ryger, Hamden, CT (US);
Ekaterina Suvorova, Hamden, CT (US);
Camelot UK Bidco Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and system for identifying, retrieving and presenting electronic documents responsive to user queries. The three distinct inventive concepts are relevancy ranking of responsive documents based on component query technique; cross-lingual searching; and search expansion using analytics of initial results to derive and generate a modified query. Each of these inventions enhances document search and retrieval systems and the three solutions may be used separately or in any combination. The three inventions apply in layers above an underlying search system, controlling the submission of requests to the underlying system in support of received search requests, typically originating with an end user. Invention (I) involves use of either of two general types of enhanced OR operator that may be offered by the underlying search system. Processing of the content domain informs automated generation of elaborated queries using these operators for submitting to such an underlying system so as to yield improved relevance ranking. Invention (II) introduces a cross-lingual search-term suggestion capability driven by the structured data being searched, requiring no dictionaries or thesauri and no rule-based or statistical language modeling. Invention (III) introduces a semantic-expansion capability specifically utilizing the availability of language independent fields in the data being searched with natural language query terms. This invention is enhanced by incorporating the preceding two inventions.