Method for ranking and sorting electronic documents in a search result list based on relevance

Abstract

A method of evaluating the relevance rank of a target document in a search result list, includes the steps of assigning a basic credit to all keywords that are found in the target document; grouping keywords that are found in the target document; assigning extra value of credit to each keyword group; calculating the total value of credit of the whole target document; calculating the maximum valueof credit of the whole target document, and calculating the relevance rank according to a comparison function of the total value of credit and the maximum value of credit for the target document.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a ranking system for determining the relative relevance of target documents identified for a search query posed by a search user and listing the targets in descending order of relevance rank document. Background technique [0002] Information technology (IT) has grown tremendously over the past few decades and has changed the way documents and files are stored and managed. Nowadays, more and more documents and files are stored in electronic form. These electronic records may be stored in electronic databases and may be queried using computerized search techniques. As more and more searchable electronic documents become available on local machines or on remote machines on a Local Area Network (LAN) or the Internet, the quality of search results becomes increasingly important in helping search users find the correct information they are looking for. more important. [0003] The following literature is related to web a...

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However, since the vector space model starts with a word-document matrix, it inevitably loses the information whether the search terms are individual or grouped together at first

Therefore, like other methods, it only handles individual search terms and cannot handle the case where search terms are grouped together in the target file

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