Patent ID: 6535873
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An integrated electronic text indexing and search system comprising:a concept model having concepts and values, wherein the concept model defines a set of concept-value pairs and wherein the concept model is modifiable by a domain expert; a query model characterized as a structured set of queries constructed by the domain expert in terms of a first subset of the set of concept-value pairs, wherein each of the queries has one or more replaceable parameters corresponding one-to-one to the concepts and each of the queries becomes a template for a number of possible user-formulated queries; a markup tool for generating a set of allowable concept-value pairs based on the first subset and for assigning the allowable concept-value pairs via markup tags to sentences or a piece of electronic text; and a query model tool for constructing the query model and for automatically generating a query interface for presenting restrictions and the set of queries that a user uses to formulate a query, wherein the user query interface is capable of submitting the user-formulated query to a search engine for matching concept-value pairs in the user-formulated query against the assigned markup tags.