Iterative refinement of search results based on user feedback
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSrinivas V. Chitiveli, Joshua Fox, Josemina M. Magdalen, Michael Pelts
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Abstract
Provided are techniques for displaying search results in a first page, receiving feedback from the user that indicate which of the search results in the first page are at least one of relevant and irrelevant, re-ordering the search results in a second page based on the indications of the search results in the first page, and displaying the re-ordered search results in the second page.
Claims12
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- storage coupled to the processor, wherein the storage stores a computer program, and wherein the processor executes the computer program to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving search results for a first page and a second page in response to a query;
- displaying search results in the first page along with a bar associated with each of the search results, wherein, for each of the search results, the bar visually represents a relevance score and has a plus button and a minus button, wherein selection of the plus button causes the bar to fill in with color to visually represent a higher relevance to a user, and wherein selection of the minus button causes the bar to decrease in color to visually represent a lower relevance to the user;
- receiving feedback from the user for at least one of the search results in the first page by receiving selection of at least one of the plus button for increasing the relevance score and the minus button for decreasing the relevance score;
- re-ordering search results in the first page by applying new relevance scores to each of the search results in the first page based on the feedback of the search results in the first page;
- identifying most frequently used words in the search results;
- adding the most frequently used words in the search results into categories;
- highlighting the most frequently used words in the search results;
- and
- re-ordering search results in the second page by applying new relevance scores to each of the search results in the second page based on the feedback of the search results in the first page.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed by a processor on a computer causes the computer to perform:
- receiving search results for a first page and a second page in response to a query;
- displaying search results in the first page along with a bar associated with each of the search results, wherein, for each of the search results, the bar visually represents a relevance score and has a plus button and a minus button, wherein selection of the plus button causes the bar to fill in with color to visually represent a higher relevance to a user, and wherein selection of the minus button causes the bar to decrease in color to visually represent a lower relevance to the user;
- receiving feedback from the user for at least one of the search results in the first page by receiving selection of at least one of the plus button for increasing the relevance score and the minus button for decreasing the relevance score;
- re-ordering search results in the first page by applying new relevance scores to each of the search results in the first page based on the feedback of the search results in the first page;
- identifying most frequently used words in the search results;
- adding the most frequently used words in the search results into categories;
- highlighting the most frequently used words in the search results;
- and
- re-ordering search results in the second page by applying new relevance scores to each of the search results in the second page based on the feedback of the search results in the first page.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.