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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2010
Viswanath Vadlamani, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhinai Srivastava, Seattle, WA (US);
Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);
Arungunram Chandrasekaran Surendran, Sammamish, WA (US);
Viswanath Vadlamani, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhinai Srivastava, Seattle, WA (US);
Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);
Arungunram Chandrasekaran Surendran, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A table of contents is generated for search results in response to a search query by identifying semantic concepts as topics for inclusion within the table of contents. When a search query is received, a search is performed to identify search results. The search results are compared to an ontology of topics to identify relevant topics. Additionally, search results are compared to an ontology of partial topics to identify relevant partial topics, which are named. Independent key-phrases are further generated from search results and identified as key-phrase topics. The identified topics, named partial topics, and key-phrase topics are ranked, and topics are selected for inclusion within a table of contents. A search results page is returned in response to the search query that includes search results and the generated table of contents.