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Snippet Extraction and Ranking

  • US 20110302162A1
  • Filed: 06/08/2010
  • Published: 12/08/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-readable medium having computer executable instructions encoded thereon, the computer executable instructions for execution by a processor to perform location-related mining operations, the operations comprising:

  • receiving a query comprising a location and a context term;

    identifying at least one snippet, wherein a snippet comprises a segment of user-generated content;

    extracting the location from the at least one snippet;

    mining the context term from the at least one snippet;

    calculating a geographic relevance score for the at least one snippet based at least on the location;

    calculating a semantic relevance score for the at least one snippet based at least on the context term;

    computing a snippet score based at least on the geographic relevance score and the semantic relevance score for the at least one snippet; and

    ranking the at least one snippet and at least one other snippet based at least on the snippet score.

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