Patent ID: 8001130
Filing Date: 2011-08-16
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computing system with a processor and a memory for determining relevance of an object to a target term, the object being a product, comprising: a component that retrieves a plurality of web pages containing a description of the object, each description including terms used to describe the object; a component that generates a collection of records of terms relating to the object, the collection including a record generated from each of the plurality of retrieved web pages, each record including a plurality of terms, each record of the collection being generated by extracting from a retrieved web page terms used to describe the object, such that the terms extracted from that retrieved web page compose the record of terms for that retrieved web page; a component that, for each record of the collection of records of terms relating to the object, a component that calculates the relevance of the object to the target term based on a summation of the language model probability of each of the plurality of the records wherein the components are implemented as computer-executable instructions stored in the memory for execution by the processor.