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Part-of-speech tagging for ranking search results

US9514221B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 14, 2013
Grant dateDec 6, 2016
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Expiry dateJun 8, 2033

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/3344
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for utilizing part-of-speech (POS) tagging of both the words included in a search query and the words included in potential search result documents to improve query alteration accuracy and search result ranking. Upon receiving a search query, POS tags are assigned to the words comprising the query to create query word-tag pairs. The query word-tag pairs are utilized to reformulate the query and are compared with document word-tag pairs included in a plurality of potential search result documents to determine a degree of similarity. The degree of similarity is utilized as an input in scoring and/or ranking the relevance of the potential search result documents with respect to one another.

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