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Search service advertisement selection

US9589277B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 31, 2013
Grant dateMar 7, 2017
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Expiry dateNov 17, 2034

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06N20/00
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for evaluating information retrieval (IR) such as search query results (including advertisements) by a machine learning scorer. In an embodiment, a set of features is derived from a query and a machine learning algorithm is applied to construct a linear model of (query, ads) for scoring by maximizing a relevance metric. In an embodiment, the machine learned scorer is adapted for use with WAND algorithm based ad selection.

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