Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Hung-An Chang

Yan Ke

Pushpraj Shukla

Wei Zhuang

Mayank Shrivastava

Jingfeng Li

Jonas Barklund

Dario Vignudelli

Ipolitas Clinton Dunaravich

Chhaya Methani

A computing system including one or more processors generates a topic set for a domain. A taxonomic evaluator is executed by the one or more processors to evaluate a set of category clusters generated from domain-specific textual data against a domain-specific taxonomic tree based on a coherency condition and to identify the category clusters that satisfy the coherency condition. The domain-specific taxonomic tree is generated from hierarchical structures of documents relating to the domain. Each identified category cluster is labeled with a label. A topic set creator is executed by the one or more processors to insert the labels of the set of identified category clusters into the topic set for the domain.

Topic set refinement

Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing methods for facilitating generation of entity names for entities are provided. The method includes determining a set of previously submitted queries that are associated with an entity. The most frequently used query within the set of previously submitted queries associated with the entity can be identified and, thereafter, designated as the entity name for the entity. The entity name can distinguish the entity from other entities. Such an entity name can be provided for presentation to a user, for example, as a related search suggestion via a search results page.

Generating distinct entity names to facilitate entity disambiguation

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Hung-An Chang