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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2010
Sarthak Deepak Shah, Kirkland, WA (US);
Tabreez Govani, Mukilteo, WA (US);
Farid Hosseini, Redmond, WA (US);
Sarthak Deepak Shah, Kirkland, WA (US);
Tabreez Govani, Mukilteo, WA (US);
Farid Hosseini, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, algorithms, and media are provided for disambiguating entities present in a received search query. Lists of categories from semi-structured data from external sites as well as internal sources are used to detect if ambiguity exists in an entity within the search query. Multiple senses or categories of the ambiguous entity are determined by ascertaining the primary intent of an entity extracted from a main term of a document. The probability of each sense is calculated by computing a total amount of traffic received for each of the senses of the ambiguous entity. The sense with the highest amount of computed traffic is the most probable determined sense.