Patent ID: 7548929
Filing Date: 2009-06-16
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for determining semantically related terms, comprising: receiving one or more seed terms; searching a first index to determine a plurality of webpages associated with the seed terms, the first index comprising a plurality of terms and for each term of the plurality of terms, an association between one or more webpages and the term; searching a second index to determine a plurality of potential terms associated with the plurality of webpages associated with the seed terms, the second index comprising a plurality of identifiers for webpages and for each webpages of the plurality of identifiers for webpages, an association between one or more terms and the webpage; sending at least one term of the plurality of potential terms to a user to suggest the at least one term of the plurality of potential terms to the user; receiving an indication of relevance of at least one suggested term to the user; modifying with a processor the terms which comprise the seed terms based at least in part on the received indication of relevance; receiving an indication that a first term is relevant to the user; and modifying with a processor the seed terms to comprise the first term as a positive seed term; wherein receiving one or more seed terms comprises;