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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2010
Kuansan Wang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Emre M. Kiciman, Seattle, WA (US);
Bo-june Hsu, Woodinville, WA (US);
Chun-kai Wang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kuansan Wang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Emre M. Kiciman, Seattle, WA (US);
Bo-June Hsu, Woodinville, WA (US);
Chun-Kai Wang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A resource selection system is described for assisting a user in performing a task that includes multiple actions. At each stage of the task, the system presents a set resources from which the user may select to perform a subsequent action in the task. The system implicitly selects the set of resources based on context information that identifies the user's current informational needs. For example, the context information may be derived from textual information that is being presented on a user device, which the user is presumed to be viewing at the current time. In one implementation, the system selects the set of resources by computing language models for respective domains and respective entities. The system uses the language models to determine the relevance of the context information to each of the domains. The system then selects resources associated with domains that have been assessed as relevant.