Patent ID: 9280587
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a computer to perform a retrieval method on a database of documents including text and names of participants associated with the documents by operations including: receiving a multi-faceted retrieval query having a text query facet comprising one or more keywords and a persons query facet comprising one or more participant names; computing an enriched text query as an aggregation of the text query facet, a monomodal expansion of the text query facet based on the one or more keywords, a cross-modal expansion of the text query facet based on the one or more participant names, and a topic expansion of the text query facet based on a topic model associating words and topics; computing an enriched persons query as an aggregation of the persons query facet, a mono-modal expansion of the persons query facet based on the one or more participant names, a cross-modal expansion of the persons query facet based on the one or more keywords, and a community expansion of the persons query facet based on a community model associating persons and communities; and performing ranking including at least one of: wherein at least one of: displaying the ranking of the documents or person query.