Patent ID: 8019744
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computerized search system in which queries are submitted by users who receive, in response, a list of documents selected from a corpus of documents wherein the list comprises documents deemed responsive to a user's query, a method of determining relevance of the documents comprising: obtaining, at a server computer comprising a processor, the query from a user; determining initial probabilities that a plurality of categories of a taxonomy contain documents relevant to the query, at least one of the initial probabilities being non-zero, wherein the initial probabilities are numeric values; determining a relevance of the documents matching the query in each category having non-zero initial probability; and determining a relevance of documents to the query based on the initial probabilities of the plurality of categories and the relevance of the documents matching the query, wherein determining the relevance of documents to the query comprises: