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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2010
Raman Chandrasekar, Seattle, WA (US);
Parikshit Sondhi, Champaign, IL (US);
Robert Rounthwaite, Fall City, WA (US);
Raman Chandrasekar, Seattle, WA (US);
Parikshit Sondhi, Champaign, IL (US);
Robert Rounthwaite, Fall City, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Topical search engines can add contextual keywords to an input query to bias results toward a particular topic or domain. In one instance, query context models can be constructed to facilitate topical search. Upon receipt of one or more topic-relevant sites, a plurality of topical queries can identified automatically. Contextual keywords can be identified with respect to the plurality of topical queries as a function of lexical generality, among other things. Subsequently, a query context model, comprising the identified topical queries and related contextual keywords, can be employed to restrict query results to a particular topic.