Systems and methods for paragraph-based document searching

摘要

A method of searching a collection of electronic documents, the method comprising: replacing a set of synonymous terms with a set of standardized paragraph terms, wherein each standardized paragraph term has an associated term weight; 5 generating standardized search terms in response to a search query; generating paragraph scores for paragraphs of a document based at least in part on the associated weights of standardized paragraph terms that match one or more of the standardized search terms; determining overall document scores for the electronic documents based at least in part on a combination of the paragraph scores; and determining a set of matching documents, 10 wherein the set of matching documents is ordered using the overall document scores.