Systems and methods are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query.

Search systems and methods using in-line contextual queries

Measuring the similarity between documents and queries has been extensively studied in information retrieval However, there are a growing number of tasks that require computing the similarity between two very short segments of text These tasks include query reformulation, sponsored search, and image retrieval Standard text similarity measures perform poorly on such tasks because of data sparseness and the lack of context In this work, we study this problem from an information retrieval perspective, focusing on text representations and similarity measures We examine a range of similarity measures, including purely lexical measures, stemming, and language modeling-based measures We formally evaluate and analyze the methods on a query-query similarity task using 363,822 queries from a web search log Our analysis provides insights into the strengths and weaknesses of each method, including important tradeoffs between effectiveness and efficiency

/pdf/similarity-measures-for-short-segments-of-text-4chwyxtjpt.pdf

Similarity measures for short segments of text

Systems and methods, including user interfaces, are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query.

User interfaces for search systems using in-line contextual queries

The present invention, known as The Collaboration Portal (COPO), relates generally to the field of automated entity, data processing, system control, and data communications, and more specifically to an integrated method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits for communities of users It provides a framework for provisioning computer-accessible benefits for communities of users, and can efficiently and robustly distribute the processing in behalf of those users over a decentralized network of computers The field of the invention generally encompasses enabling appropriate and desired communication among communities of users and organizations, and providing information, goods, services, a works, opportunities, and connections among users and organizations

Collaboration portal (COPO) a scaleable method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits to communities of users

A medication management system (MMS) includes a medication management unit (MMU) associated with a medical device. The MMU downloads a medication order to the medical device only if information from a first input matches information from a second input. The medical device receives delivery information only from the MMU. The medication order is performed only after delivery data validation. The MMU also determines drug-drug incompatibility. The MMU can modulate (start, stop, and dynamically adjust) medication order performance. The medical device wirelessly receives a patient ID to automatically associate with the patient. During delivery, the medical device caches an updated drug library to replace an existing one. The medical device displays a patient picture for validation. The MMU evaluates the performance of medical devices and caregivers based medical device feedback. The MMU adjusts the output of medical device information conveyed to a caregiver.

Medication management system

A system and method for document retrieval is disclosed The invention addresses a major problem in text-based document retrieval: rapidly finding a small subset of documents in a large document collection (eg Web pages on the Internet) that are relevant to a limited set of query terms supplied by the user The invention is based on utilizing information contained in the document collection about the statistics of word relationships (“context”) to facilitate the specification of search queries and document comparison The method consists of first compiling word relationships into a context database that captures the statistics of word proximity and occurrence throughout the document collection At retrieval time, a search matrix is computed from a set of user-supplied keywords and the context database For each document in the collection, a similar matrix is computed using the contents of the document and the context database Document relevance is determined by comparing the similarity of the search and document matrices The disclosed system therefore retrieves documents with contextual similarity rather than word frequency similarity, simplifying search specification while allowing greater search precision

System and method for context-based document retrieval

A communications system has first and second units whereby, when a user changes the physical state of the first unit, a message is sent to the second unit to cause the second unit to change to the same state. This change in state can be, for example, a physical squeezing movement or a change in color.

Shermann Loyall Min

Papers

System and method for context-based document retrieval

State adaptation devices and methods for wireless communications

State adaption devices and methods for wireless communications