Context-Aware Natural Text Search Query Refinement
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Solution Overview
Problem
In systems performing natural text searches, queries often lack concreteness due to high abstractness, leading to inadequate search results as the representation of query contents varies among users.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that receives a natural text search query, acquires information on the context of the query, and processes it by extracting relevant sentences or feature words from associated content or workflow information to generate more concrete search queries, thereby improving search accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users input queries in natural text search, then ease of operation is improved, but measurement precision of query meaning deteriorates due to high abstractness and varying representations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing step between the user's natural text query and the search execution. This intermediary analyzes the query's abstractness level and automatically supplements it with context information from the user's current operational environment (such as screen content, application state, or workflow context), thereby mediating between the user's intent and the search system's requirements for precision without requiring the user to manually refine their query
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary analysis of the query's abstractness level before executing the search. By pre-assessing whether the query is sufficiently concrete, the system can determine whether supplementation is needed, allowing the query refinement process to occur in advance of the actual search operation, thus improving measurement precision while maintaining ease of operation
2Ease of operation
If queries are kept simple and abstract, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability of search results deteriorates due to insufficient representation
Solution Approach 1:
The system acts as an intermediary that receives the user's simple, abstract query and enriches it with contextual information from the user's current environment. This intermediary processing ensures that the simplicity maintained by the user does not compromise the reliability of the search results, as the system automatically adds necessary concrete details before performing the search
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing and supplementing queries without requiring user intervention. The query refinement process is handled autonomously by the system based on predefined criteria for abstractness and available context information, thereby maintaining ease of operation while improving reliability through automated query enhancement
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive an input of a query for a natural text search from a user; receive an execution instruction for the natural text search from the user; acquire information indicating a situation in which the execution instruction for the natural text search was issued; and perform, based on the acquired information, processing of the query.