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Document searching tool and method
Behnam Azvine,Simon James Case,Zhan Cui +2 more
- 02 Feb 2006
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TL;DR: In this paper, a store of electronic documents is automatically searched by controlling a user interface to permit a user to enter a search term, carrying out a search using the search term and returning the documents returned by the search into a plurality of distinct categories, and controlling the interface to present in a left-hand panel the plurality of different categories and in a right-hand board the documents returning by a search, or references thereto, in a grouped manner such that documents of a particular category are grouped together.
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Abstract: A store of electronic documents is automatically searched by controlling a user interface to permit a user to enter a search term, carrying out a search using the search term, the documents returned by the search into a plurality of distinct categories, and controlling the user interface to present in a left-hand panel the plurality of distinct categories and in a right-hand panel the documents returned by the search, or references thereto, in a grouped manner such that documents, or references thereto, of a particular category are grouped together, wherein the categories are selected in dependence upon the search term.
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