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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2005
Christopher J. Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
Irina Matveeva, Chicago, IL (US);
Leon C. W. Wong, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew S. Laucius, Seattle, WA (US);
Timo Burkard, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher J. Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
Irina Matveeva, Chicago, IL (US);
Leon C. W. Wong, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew S. Laucius, Seattle, WA (US);
Timo Burkard, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A unique system and method that facilitates improving the ranking of items is provided. The system and method involve re-ranking decreasing subsets of high ranked items in separate stages. In particular, a basic ranking component can rank a set of items. A subset of the top or high ranking items can be taken and used as a new training set to train a component for improving the ranking among these high ranked documents. This process can be repeated on an arbitrary number of successive high ranked subsets. Thus, high ranked items can be reordered in separate stages by focusing on the higher ranked items to facilitate placing the most relevant items at the top of a search results list.