CLUSTERING WEB QUERIES

Patent №

US 7,149,732

Granted

2006-12-12

Filed 2001

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09977171

The described subject matter provides systems and procedures to make query similarity determinations, wherein the queries are used in information retrieval operations. A same document and/or multiple similar documents are identified that have been selected by a user in response to multiple queries. Responsive to identifying the same document and/or the similar documents, a query cluster is generated that indicates that the queries used to obtain the same and/or similar documents. This is accomplished in a manner that is independent of whether individual ones of the queries are compositionally similar with respect to other ones of the queries.

Machine learningNatural languageKnowledge representationAI hardwareG06F 16/3329G06F 16/9535Y10S 707/99932Y10S 707/99934Y10S 707/99935Y10S 707/99936Y10S 707/99937Y10S 707/99938+1 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.93
Machine learning0.60
Vision0.11
Speech0.01
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 122680341

Assignors

WEN, JI-RONG, NIE, JIAN YUN, LI, MINGJING, ZHANG, HONG-JIANG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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