IDENTIFYING DOMINANT CONCEPTS ACROSS MULTIPLE SOURCES

• US 20110302149A1
• Filed: 06/07/2010
• Published: 12/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: NAJM, TAREK, SRIVASTAVA, ABHINAI, SRIKANTH, MUNIRATHNAM, SURENDRAN, ARUNGUNRAM CHANDRASEKARAN, PRASAD, RAJEEV, VADLAMANI, VISWANATH
• Application Number:
  US12/795,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20110302149A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/711
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-storage media for identifying dominant concepts are provided. The system includes a search engine connected to various sources, an entity extraction component, a metabase, and a ranking component. The search engine receives a contextual query and provides results in response to the contextual query. The entity extraction component parses the results and identifies entities included in the results. The metabase provides a distance between the entities included in the results and the query terms included in the contextual query. The ranking component ranks the entities based on the provided distance and selects dominant concepts within the results based on the ranks assigned to entities.

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