Interactive interface for specifying searches

专利名称：Interactive interface for specifying searches发明人：Marti A. Hearst申请号：US09200194申请日：19981125公开号：US06223145B1公开日：20010424

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摘要：An interactive interface for creating a search query for a corpus of machine-readable documents, each of which is associated with at least one category of a categoryhierarchy. The interactive interface includes a cone tree generation component, a queryspecification component, a begin search component, and a query generation component.

The cone tree generation component generates and displays a cone tree representingthe category hierarchy. The cone tree represents each category of the categoryhierarchy as a node having a selection object for indicating inclusion of the category in aone of a first group, and a second group. Each selection object is responsive to a cursorcontrol device. The query specification component generates and displays a queryspecification object including a first group object and a second group object. Each groupobject is responsive to the cursor control device and indicates members of the group.Each group includes a one of a term included within the corpus and a category of thecategory cone tree. The begin search component generates and displays a begin searchobject responsive to the cursor control device. The query generation componentgenerates a query for searching the corpus to find documents that include at least onemember of the first group and at least member of the second group.

申请人：ZEROX CORPORATION

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