Ranking of geographic information
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1. A computer-implemented method of ranking geographic information, the method comprising:
- identifying at least two documents retrieved in response to a query, a first document of the at least two documents being associated with a first geographic feature, and a second document of the at least two documents being associated with a second geographic feature;
identifying types of the first and the second geographic features;
identifying a first ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the first geographic feature and a second ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the second geographic feature;
generating a first rank score for the first geographic feature based at least in part on the first ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the first geographic feature, and generating a second rank score for the second geographic feature based at least in part on the second ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the second geographic feature, wherein generating the first and the second rank scores is performed, at least in part, independently of a structure of the first and second documents and includes measuring a degree of usefulness of each geographic feature of the at least two documents to at least one user, and wherein each of the one or more physical properties of the first and the second geographic features provides an indication of the usefulness of the first and the second geographic features; and
providing a list of the at least two documents that is ordered based at least in part on the first and the second rank scores of the first and the second geographic features.
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Abstract
Ranking of geographic information includes receiving information about geographic features, identifying documents based on the information, each document being associated with one of the geographic features, and generating a rank score for each document based on one or more properties of the geographic feature associated with the document.
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1. A computer-implemented method of ranking geographic information, the method comprising:
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identifying at least two documents retrieved in response to a query, a first document of the at least two documents being associated with a first geographic feature, and a second document of the at least two documents being associated with a second geographic feature; identifying types of the first and the second geographic features; identifying a first ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the first geographic feature and a second ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the second geographic feature; generating a first rank score for the first geographic feature based at least in part on the first ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the first geographic feature, and generating a second rank score for the second geographic feature based at least in part on the second ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the second geographic feature, wherein generating the first and the second rank scores is performed, at least in part, independently of a structure of the first and second documents and includes measuring a degree of usefulness of each geographic feature of the at least two documents to at least one user, and wherein each of the one or more physical properties of the first and the second geographic features provides an indication of the usefulness of the first and the second geographic features; and providing a list of the at least two documents that is ordered based at least in part on the first and the second rank scores of the first and the second geographic features. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system comprising:
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one or more processing devices configured to perform operations comprising; identifying at least two documents retrieved in response to a query, a first document of the at least two documents being associated with a first geographic feature, and a second document of the at least two documents being associated with a second geographic feature; identifying types of the first and the second geographic features; identifying a first ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the first geographic feature and a second ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the second geographic feature; generating a first rank score for the first geographic feature based at least in part on the first ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the first geographic feature, and generating a second rank score for the second geographic feature based at least in part on the second ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the second geographic feature, wherein generating the first and the second rank scores is performed, at least in part, independently of a structure of the first and second documents and includes measuring a degree of usefulness of each geographic feature of the at least two documents to at least one user, and wherein each of the one or more physical properties of the first and the second geographic features provides an indicating of the usefulness of the first and the second geographic features; and providing a list of the at least two documents that is ordered based at least in part on the first and the second rank scores of the first and the second geographic features. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A system comprising:
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means for identifying at least two documents retrieved in response to a query, a first document of the at least two documents being associated with a first geographic feature, and a second document of the at least two documents being associated with a second geographic feature; means for identifying types of the first and the second geographic features; means for identifying a first ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the first geographic feature and a second ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the second geographic feature; means for generating a first rank score for the first geographic feature based at least in part on the first ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the first geographic feature, and generating a second rank score for the second geographic feature based at least in part on the second ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the second geographic feature, wherein generating the first and the second rank scores is performed, at least in part, independently of a structure of the first and second documents and includes measuring a degree of usefulness of each geographic feature of the at least two documents to at least one user, and wherein each of the one or more physical properties of the first and the second geographic features provides an indication of the usefulness of the first and the second geographic features; and means for providing a list of the at least two documents that is ordered based at least in part on the first and the second rank scores of the first and the second geographic feature. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A computer program product tangibly stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium and configured to cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:
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identifying at least two documents retrieved in response to a query, a first document of the at least two documents being associated with a first geographic feature, and a second document of the at least two documents being associated with a second geographic feature; identifying types of the first and the second geographic features; identifying a first ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the first geographic feature and a second ranking function based at least in part on the identified type of the second geographic feature; generating a first rank score for the first geographic feature based at least in part on the first ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the first geographic feature, and generating a second rank score for the second geographic feature based at least in part on the second ranking function and on one or more physical properties of the second geographic feature, wherein generating the first and the second rank scores is performed, at least in part, independently of a structure of the first and second documents and includes measuring a degree of usefulness of each geographic feature of the at least two documents to at least one user, and wherein each of the one or more physical properties of the first and the second geographic features provides an indication of the usefulness of the first and the second geographic features; and providing a list of the at least two documents that is ordered based at least in part on the first and the second rank scores of the first and the second geographic features.
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