APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SEARCH RESULTS WITH A MENU OF REFINING SEARCH TERMS
A graphical user interface includes a listing of results derived from processing a query. The graphical user interface further includes a menu of refining search terms that is dynamically derived in response to the processing of the query.
1 . A graphical user interface, comprising:
a listing of results derived from processing a query; and
a menu of refining search terms that is dynamically derived in response to the processing of the query.
2 . The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein the menu is a multi-level pull-down menu.
3 . The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein the menu lists search term refinements.
4 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein search term refinements are based upon criteria selected from stems, abbreviations, word grouping, spelling variations, semantic relationships, synonyms, acronym expansion, terms that divide a search space into substantially non-overlapping subsets, capitalization, and Markov techniques that consider preceding and subsequent terms for a related query.
5 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon predetermined ontologies.
6 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon extracted ontologies.
7 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon induced relationships from the co-occurrence of sets of objects.
8 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon markup group search results.
9 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon regular expression group search results.
10 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon Markov models group search results.
11 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon grammatical pattern group search results.
12 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon context free pattern group search results.
13 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon predetermined rule group search results.
14 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon machine learned rule group search results.
15 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon combinations of list group search results.
16 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon combining Markov model group search results.
17 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon ontological restriction group search results.
18 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the search term refinements are based upon lexical restriction group search results.
19 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the order of search term refinements is based upon co-occurrence restrictions.
20 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the order of search term refinements is based upon page rankings.
21 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the order of search term refinements is based upon the number of web pages selected.
22 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the order of search term refinements is based upon the overlap of web pages.
23 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the order of search term refinements is based upon the percentage of documents selected from all documents returned in response to a search query.
24 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the order of search term refinements is based upon a quality metric.
25 . The graphical user interface of claim 3 wherein the order of search term refinements is based upon relevance between list items and specified concepts.