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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Applicants:
Hong-jiang Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dong Liu, Beijing, CN;
Meng Wang, Beijing, CN;
Linjun Yang, Beijing, CN;
Xian-sheng Hua, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Hong-Jiang Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dong Liu, Beijing, CN;
Meng Wang, Beijing, CN;
Linjun Yang, Beijing, CN;
Xian-Sheng Hua, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Technologies for generating a boosted tag ranking for a media instance, the boosted tag ranking based on probabilistic relevance estimation computed by a probabilistic relevance estimator and tag correlation refining performed by a tag correlation refiner. Such boosted tag rankings may be used for search result ranking, tag recommendation, and group recommendation.