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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2011
Jianfeng Gao, Woodinville, WA (US);
Xuedong Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mei LI, Redmond, WA (US);
Zhenghao Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher John Brockett, Bellevue, WA (US);
William B. Dolan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jianfeng Gao, Woodinville, WA (US);
Xuedong Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mei Li, Redmond, WA (US);
Zhenghao Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher John Brockett, Bellevue, WA (US);
William B. Dolan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The subject disclosure is directed towards developing a translation model for mapping search query terms to document-related data. By processing user logs comprising search histories into word-aligned query-document pairs, the translation model may be trained using data, such as probabilities, corresponding to the word-aligned query-document pairs. After incorporating the translation model into model data for a search engine, the translation model is used may used as features for producing relevance scores for current search queries and ranking documents/advertisements according to relevance.