Normalizing content ratings of content forums
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1. A computing system for generating a quality rating for items, comprising:
- a component that collects ratings of items from various item forums;
a component that generates transforms for item forums based on ratings of duplicate items in different item forums to account for differences in ratings by the item forums; and
a component that transforms the ratings of the non-duplicate items based on the generated transforms.
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Abstract
A method and system for ranking content and providing a user interface for viewing the content is provided. The content system ranks content in a search result based on a combination of relevance of the content to a query and quality of the content. The content system may derive the quality of content by analyzing ratings provided by various content forums. The content system may use metadata provided by a content forum when searching for content that matches a query. The content system generates a rank score that combines the relevance and quality of the content and ranks the content according to the rank scores.
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1. A computing system for generating a quality rating for items, comprising:
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a component that collects ratings of items from various item forums;
a component that generates transforms for item forums based on ratings of duplicate items in different item forums to account for differences in ratings by the item forums; and
a component that transforms the ratings of the non-duplicate items based on the generated transforms. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computing system for generating quality ratings for images, comprising:
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a collection component that collects ratings of images from various image forums;
a generate transform component that generates a transform for each image forum based on differences in ratings of the various image forums as indicated by ratings of duplicate images in different image forums; and
a transform component that transforms the rating of an image of an image forum based on the generated transform for the image forum. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling a computing system to generate quality ratings for images, by a method comprising:
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providing ratings of images from various image forums;
scaling the ratings of different image forums to a common scale;
generating a transform for each image forum based on differences in scaled ratings of the various image forums as indicated by ratings of duplicate images in different image forums; and
transforming the ratings of an image of an image forum based on the generated transform for the image forum. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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