US5826260 Patents
In an information retrieval System, a query issued by the user is analyzed by a query engine into query elements. After the query has been evaluated against the document collections, a resulting hit list is presented to the user, e.g., as a table. The presented hit list displays not only an overall rank of a document but also a contribution of each query element to the rank of the document. The user can reorder the hit list by prioritizing the contribution of individual query elements to override the Overall rank and by assigning additional weight (s) to those contributions. 15 Claims, 8 Drawi
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