Dr. Kerschberg, and his colleagues Dr. Wooju Kim and Dr. Anthony Scime were awarded a patent:
Patent Number: 7, 117,207 B1
Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
Title: Personalizable Semantic Taxonomy-Based Search Agent
Abstract:
Disclosed is a search mechanism comprising: accepting search intent information from a user having a search intent; creating a semantic taxonomy tree having term(s) representative of the search intent information; augmenting the term(s) with associated concepts derived from the term(s) using existing terminological data; associating a weight with at least one of the term(s); obtaining user preference intent; determining root term(s); transforming the semantic taxonomy tree to a Boolean search query; submitting the Boolean search query to searcher(s); receiving at least one search result(s); interpreting the search result(s); requesting page(s) specified the search result(s); receiving the page(s); generating ranked results; presenting the ranked results to the user; presenting the semantic taxonomy tree to the user; accepting user feedback from the user; and using the user feedback to update the user preference intent.
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To learn more about the theory and practice associated with the patent, please refer to the papers below. The references have links to the PDF version of the papers.
L. Kerschberg, W. Kim, and A. Scime, "A Semantic Taxonomy-Based Personalizable Meta-Search Agent," in Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, vol. LNAI 2564, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, W. Truszkowski, Ed. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 3-31.
Kim, W., Kerschberg, L. and Scime, A. Learning for Automatic Personalization in a Semantic Taxonomy-Based Meta-Search Agent. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), 1 (2).
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