Patent Document ID: 8572087
Application ID: 11873790
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method implemented by data processing apparatus, the method comprising: generating a plurality of distinct clusters from training content wherein each of the plurality of clusters represents similar features of content items in the training content; identifying one or more conjunctions of the clusters based on a respective probability of observing features of each cluster of the conjunction in a collection of content items; scoring each of a plurality of the identified conjunctions based at least partly on a conditional probability that the conjunction is associated with a label; selecting a conjunction of the scored conjunctions that has a highest score as a current conjunction; until a stopping condition is reached: generating one or more higher-order child conjunctions for the current conjunction wherein each of the child conjunctions is a conjunction of the conjoined clusters of the current conjunction with one or more respective additional clusters that are not included in the conjoined clusters; scoring each of the child conjunctions based at least partly on a conditional probability that the child conjunction is associated with the label; if a highest scoring child conjunction has a score that is less than the score of the current conjunction, the stopping condition is reached, otherwise designating the highest scoring child conjunction as the current conjunction; and generating a classifier for the label from the current conjunction.