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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2010
Viswanath Vadlamani, Redmond, WA (US);
Munirathnam Srikanth, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhinai Srivastava, Seattle, WA (US);
Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);
Arungunram Chandrasekaran Surendran, Sammamish, WA (US);
John Midgley, Seattle, WA (US);
Mahbubul Alam Ali, Redmond, WA (US);
Viswanath Vadlamani, Redmond, WA (US);
Munirathnam Srikanth, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhinai Srivastava, Seattle, WA (US);
Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);
Arungunram Chandrasekaran Surendran, Sammamish, WA (US);
John Midgley, Seattle, WA (US);
Mahbubul Alam Ali, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Search result re-ranking is provided by employing a concept graph from a metabase. When a search query is received, a query context of the search query is analyzed to identify dominant concepts for the search query. The dominant concepts are expanded by identifying the dominant concepts within a concept graph and identifying additional concepts having a strong relationship with the dominant concepts within the concept graph. A set of search results for the search query is analyzed to determine strength of relationship of each search result to the expanded concepts. The search results are re-ranked based on the strength of relationship of each search result to the expanded concepts and the strength of relationship of each expanded concept to the dominant concepts.