PatchScout Gathers Themed Web Data for Researchers
Researchers often need web collections on one theme, not just answers to a single search. Such collections must be pulled together from many scattered sources. PatchScout is a new method designed for this job, using a search approach called information foraging to build reusable document sets.
Quick glossaryCorpus, Information foraging
- Corpus
- A large collection of text or documents gathered together so researchers can study it or train AI on it.
- Information foraging
- A idea borrowed from animal hunting that describes how people search for useful information by following promising trails.
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