2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the entries have associated subject-determining power scores corresponding to the descriptive terms within the entries, wherein an individual subject-determining-power score indicates the relative strength or weakness of the corresponding descriptive term with respect to the subject associated with a particular dictionary containing the entry, and wherein the first matching generates the scores from the subject-determining power scores.
5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the adjusting is performed by multiplying the subject-determining power scores by a factor of (1+α/D), where a is a tuning parameter and D is a distance indicating a degree of decreasing affinity within the hierarchy of the corresponding dictionary.