Text Search Task
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A Text Search Task is a information search task that involves searching for specific text items within a text item repository.
- Context:
- Input: A Textual Search Query (often a set of keywords or a phrase), and a Textual Data Source (such as a digital text corpus or a text database).
- Output: Relevant Text Items (that ideally match the query criteria).
- It can be solved by a Text Search System.
- It can (typically) involve Text Tokenization and Text Indexing.
- It can range from being a Simple Text Search Task (e.g., finding a single word in a document) to being a Complex Text Search Task (e.g., finding documents relevant to a complex topic).
- It can be a part of Digital Library Search, Web Search, or Database Search.
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- Example(s):
- a Text Items Keyword Search Task, such as finding all documents that include the phrase “
Machine Learning". - a Legal Document Search Task, such as locating all instances of a specific legal precedent in case law database s.
- a Literature Review Search Task, such as identifying research papers that discuss a particular theory in a digital library.
- a News Article Search Task, such as finding news articles related to a specific event or topic.
- a Resume Search Task, such as locating resumes that match certain skill keywords in a recruitment database.
- a Book Search Task, such as finding a specific chapter or topic in an e-book collection.
- a Contract Amendment Search Task, such as finding all contracts amended to comply with the new data protection regulation.
- a Contract Clause Similarity Search Task, such as showing all variations of NDA clauses in contracts signed in the last five years.
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- a Text Items Keyword Search Task, such as finding all documents that include the phrase “
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Full-Text Search Engine, Boolean Search Logic, Natural Language Search.
References
2023
- (ChatGPT, 2023) ⇒
- A Text Search Task is a specific form of an Information Search Task tailored to textual data. It involves searching within textual content sources, like documents, websites, or databases, to find specific information or text items. The effectiveness of a Text Search Task depends on factors such as the accuracy of the search terms, the quality of the textual content, and the capabilities of the text search system used. This task is crucial in various domains, including research, data analysis, legal investigations, and general information retrieval, and it requires tools and approaches distinct from other types of search tasks, such as image or audio searches.