Information search device and information search method using topic-centric query routing

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6701310
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09569305

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An information search device capable of selecting topic search engines (i.e., search engines that focus on specific topics) that are appropriate to a user's search keywords when searching the Web on the Internet. Terms having relevance to each topic search engine are collected from, for example, the Web, and a DB selection index for selecting search engines is produced in advance by an index generator. When a search keyword is supplied from a user, terms having relevance to the search keyword are acquired from a general-purpose Web search engine by means of a query expansion unit. The thus-acquired terms are matched with terms stored in the DB selection index, and topic search engines having a high incidence of matching are presented to the user.

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  • NEC CORPORATION;UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Etzioni, Oren Seattle, WA 18 1167
Sugiura, Atsushi Tokyo, JP 18 253

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