Alignment-based method for searching text based on meaning</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Alignment-based method for searching text based on meaning"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Alignment-based,method,for,searching,text,based,on,meaning"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">20-10-2006</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Alignment-based method for searching text based on meaning</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Toronto, Canada (UoT): University of Toronto medical student Andrew Deonarine is one of 11 finalists for this year’s Collegiate Inventors Competition. Deonarine was nominated, along with his adviser Sarah Teichmann, for a project entitled An Alignment-Based Method for Searching Text Based on Meaning – essentially a more efficient way to do Internet searches by examining the meaning of a phrase rather than individual key words. For example, applied to the search phrase “dog chases man,” his program could return the news headline Angry Pitbull Runs After Grandfather. The invention relies on a combination of historical linguistics and bioinformatics, using the bioinformatics algorithms to help examine language. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/061018-2642.asp " target="blank">www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/061018-2642.asp </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show