Patent Document ID: 9280587
Application ID: 13832463

Base Claim:
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: (1) generating a ranking of documents by sorting similarities between the enriched text query and documents of the database, and (2) generating a ranking of persons by sorting the enriched persons query; and wherein at least one of: (I) the cross-modal expansion of the text query facet is proportional to X w T X u u q where u q is a vector representing the persons query facet, X w is a term-document matrix associating words with documents of the database and X u is a participant-document matrix associating participants with documents of the database; and (II) the cross-modal expansion of the persons query facet is proportional to X u T X w w q where w q is a vector representing the text query facet, X w is a term-document matrix associating words with documents of the database and X u is a participant-document matrix associating participants with documents of the database; and displaying the ranking of the documents or person query.

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Claim 2:
2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the cross-modal expansion of the text query facet comprises text of person profiles of the named participants.