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1. A method comprising:
- extracting a plurality of objects and a plurality of facets from a first set of external corpora, wherein the first set of external corpora comprises an extraction corpus;
transforming first data from a second set of external corpora into second data having a common data format, wherein the second set of external corpora comprises ranking corpora;
ranking the facets based at least upon the second data;
mapping a query to one or more of the objects to obtain one or more query objects; and
retrieving a ranked list of facets for the one or more query objects.
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Abstract
Exemplary methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support extraction of objects and facets from one or more extraction corpora and ranking of said facets using multiple ranking corpora.
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1. A method comprising:
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extracting a plurality of objects and a plurality of facets from a first set of external corpora, wherein the first set of external corpora comprises an extraction corpus; transforming first data from a second set of external corpora into second data having a common data format, wherein the second set of external corpora comprises ranking corpora; ranking the facets based at least upon the second data; mapping a query to one or more of the objects to obtain one or more query objects; and retrieving a ranked list of facets for the one or more query objects. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An article comprising:
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a storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions stored thereon which are executable by a special purpose computing apparatus to; extract a plurality of objects and a plurality of facets from a first set of external corpora, the first set of external corpora comprising an extraction corpus; transform first data from a second set of external corpora into second data having a common data format, wherein the second set of external corpora comprises ranking corpora; rank the facets based at least upon the second data; map a query to one or more of said objects to obtain one or more query objects; and retrieve a ranked list of facets for said one or more query objects. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus comprising:
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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 to; extract a plurality of objects and a plurality of facets from a first set of external corpora, the first set of external corpora comprising an extraction corpus; transform first data from a second set of external corpora into second data having a common data format, wherein the second set of external corpora comprises ranking corpora; rank said facets based at least upon the second data; map a query in one or more signals received from the communication interface to one or more of said objects to obtain one or more query objects; and retrieve a ranked list of facets for said one or more query objects. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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