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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2005
Sihem Amer-yahia, New York, NY (US);
Nikolas Koudas, Toronto, CA;
Amelie Marian, New York, NY (US);
Divesh Srivastava, Summit, NJ (US);
David Toman, Waterloo, CA;
Sihem Amer-Yahia, New York, NY (US);
Nikolas Koudas, Toronto, CA;
Amelie Marian, New York, NY (US);
Divesh Srivastava, Summit, NJ (US);
David Toman, Waterloo, CA;
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer readable medium are disclosed. The method embodiment relates to a method of computing score of candidate answers to a database query. The method comprises receiving a database query, assigning a first score to a match to the query, the first score being associated with a relative importance of an individual keyword in a collection of documents based on all structural and content predicates in the query, assigning a second score to the match, the second score being associated with a relative importance of a keyword in an individual document and using the assigned first score and second score to compute an answer score for the query.