METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT COLLECTION

摘要

A method, system, and article are provided for efficiently and effectively searching an electronic document collection. Each of the documents in the collection is pre-divided into sub-sections. One or more profiles are created, with each profile including a selection of one or more of the sections of the documents in the collection. In addition, a weight is assigned to each of the selected sections in the profile. Based upon the parameters of a query and selection of a profile, select sub-sections of each document are employed in a comparison of query data to the underlying document collection. A compilation of documents is created based upon all documents with data matching the query data within the sections of the document as identified in the submitted profile.