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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2009
Benyu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Gui-rong Xue, Shanghai, CN;
Hua-jun Zeng, Beijing, CN;
Wei-ying MA, Beijing, CN;
Xue-mei Jiang, Beijing, CN;
Zheng Chen, Beijing, CN;
Benyu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Gui-Rong Xue, Shanghai, CN;
Hua-Jun Zeng, Beijing, CN;
Wei-Ying Ma, Beijing, CN;
Xue-Mei Jiang, Beijing, CN;
Zheng Chen, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for adapting search results of a query to the information needs of the user submitting the query is provided. A search system analyzes click-through triplets indicating that a user submitted a query and that the user selected a document from the results of the query. To overcome the large size and sparseness of the click-through data, the search system when presented with an input triplet comprising a user, a query, and a document determines a probability that the user will find the input document important by smoothing the click-through triplets. The search system then orders documents of the result based on the probability of their importance to the input user.