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Universal pattern search on the web
Often you need no exact match for a given search criteria, or its description
is so individual (e.g. detailed human diagnostic parameters) that you cannot
expect to find exactly the same description on the web. In these cases
it is also helpful if you can find a very similar object. This is possible
by representation of the object's features by a numerical vector (a sequence
of numbers), so that similarities of the objects are mapped to small distances
of their vectors. An unique "pattern name" is associated with any vector
and defines its meaning unambiguously. Both together, name and feature
vector, build a numerical "pattern" which is machine readable and efficiently
searchable. We describe this here:
Realization of universal pattern search
on the web.
A medical database which uses the search concept is an application:
Design
of a global medical database which is searchable by human diagnostic patterns
Keywords:
Patterns, Non-Text Search, Numerical Search, Feature Vectors, Pattern
names, Domain Names, Pattern Domains, Universal Pattern Search, Searchable
Global Medical Database, World Wide Web, Search Engines, Data Mining, Information
Retrieval, Searchable Global Medical Database