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Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2012
Applicant:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jianfeng Gao, Woodinville, WA (US);

Zhonghua Qu, Dallas, TX (US);

Gu Xu, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30702 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system for Web search ranking are provided herein. The method includes generating a number of training samples from clickthrough data, wherein the training samples include positive query-document pairs and negative query-document pairs. The method also includes discriminatively training a translation model based on the training samples and ranking a number of documents for a Web search based on the translation model.


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