RANKING ENTITY RELATIONS USING EXTERNAL CORPUS
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1. A method comprising:
- executing instructions by a special purpose computing apparatus to;
map one or more electrical digital signals representing a query to one or more content entities;
for at least one of said one or more content entities, map a plurality of topic entities to said content entity; and
for at least one of said one or more content entities, rank topic entities mapped to said at least one of said one or more content entities based, at least in part, on a measure of co-occurrence of content entity-topic entity pairs.
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Abstract
Exemplary methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support ranking entity relations utilizing the vocabulary of at least one external corpus for use in search engine information management systems.
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1. A method comprising:
executing instructions by a special purpose computing apparatus to; map one or more electrical digital signals representing a query to one or more content entities; for at least one of said one or more content entities, map a plurality of topic entities to said content entity; and for at least one of said one or more content entities, rank topic entities mapped to said at least one of said one or more content entities based, at least in part, on a measure of co-occurrence of content entity-topic entity pairs. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An article comprising:
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a storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions stored thereon which, in response to being executed by a processor, at least in part direct said processor to; map a query to one or more content entities; for at least one of said one or more content entities, map a plurality of topic entities to said content entity; and for at least one of said one or more content entities, rank topic entities mapped to said at least one of said one or more content entities based, at least in part, on a measure of co-occurrence of content entity-topic entity pairs. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An apparatus comprising:
a computing platform comprising; a communication interface to receive from an electronic communication network one or more electrical digital signals transmitting information; and one or more processors programmed with instructions to; map one or more electrical digital signals received from said electronic communication network through said communication interface and representing a query to one or more content entities; for at least one of said one or more content entities, map a plurality of topic entities to said content entity; and for at least one of said one or more content entities, rank topic entities mapped to said at least one of said one or more content entities based, at least in part, on a measure of co-occurrence of content entity-topic entity pairs. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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