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Snippet extraction and ranking

  • US 8,954,425 B2
  • Filed: 06/08/2010
  • Issued: 02/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-readable storage medium having computer executable instructions encoded thereon, the computer executable instructions for execution by a processor to perform location-related mining operations on a travelogue, the operations comprising:

  • receiving a query comprising a particular location and a context term which describes the particular location;

    identifying at least one snippet, the at least one snippet comprising a segment of user-generated content;

    filtering out one or more biased context terms from the at least one snippet, the one or more biased context terms describing a plurality of locations;

    extracting the particular location from the at least one snippet;

    mining the context term which describes the particular location from the at least one snippet;

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

    calculating a semantic relevance score for the at least one snippet based at least in part on the context term which describes the particular location;

    computing a snippet score based at least in part 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 in part on the snippet score of the at least one snippet.

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