CLUSTERING QUESTION SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON TOPIC AND FOCUS

Patent №

US 8,024,332

Granted

2011-09-20

Filed 2008

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12185702

A method and system for presenting questions that are relevant to a queried question based on clusters of topics and clusters of focuses of the questions is provided. A question search system provides a collection of questions. Each question of the collection has an associated topic and focus. Upon receiving a queried question, the question search system identifies questions of the collection that may be relevant to the queried question and generates a score or ranking indicating relevance of the identified questions. The question search system clusters the identified questions into topic clusters of questions with similar topics. The question search system may also cluster the questions within each topic cluster into focus clusters of questions with similar focuses.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware1.00
Evolutionary computation0.96
Vision0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 220150495

Assignors

CAO, YUNBO, LIN, CHIN-YEW

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

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