Extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data

摘要

A method for performing relationship searches on a corpus of documents and relationship search navigation tip engine are disclosed. The search navigation tip engine comprises a computer processor; a data repository configured to maintain rules that map between one or more relationship query components and corresponding specifications of relationship queries; a storage medium comprising a tip search manager and a storage medium comprising a tip searcher. The tip search manager, when executed on the computer processor, is configured to parse the rules stored in the data repository to generate mappings between potential input queries and corresponding relationship searches to be executed. Each relationship search indicates one or more terms and associated syntactic and/or semantic information used to convey how the one or more terms are to be understood in relation to the corpus and can include a separate document constraint portion specifying a designated ontology path specification or context operator portion specifying an entity and/or an action. The tip searcher, when executed on the computer processor, is configured to receive an input query, determine, using the tip search manager, a plurality of mappings that correspond to the input query, execute the plurality of different relationship searches that correspond to the determined plurality of mappings to generate corresponding search results, and return indications to the executed relationship searches that generated successful corresponding search results.