Patent Document ID: 10055457
Application ID: 15251614

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: obtaining one or more query terms in a first query; and for each of the one or more query terms: searching a standardized entity taxonomy to locate a standardized entity that most closely matches the query term, the standardized entity taxonomy comprising an entity identification for each of a plurality of different standardized entities; calculating a confidence score for a query term-standardized entity pair for the standardized entity that most closely matches the query term; in response to a determination that the confidence score transgresses a threshold, associating the query term with the entity identification corresponding to the standardized entity that most closely matches the query term; retrieving one or more query rewriting rules corresponding to an entity type of the standardized entity having the entity identification; and executing the one or more query rewriting rules to rewrite the first query such that the rewritten query is more restrictive than the first query.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the entity type is a skill and the one or more query rewriting rules include determining if there are any standardized titles having an affinity score with the standardized entity that most closely matches the query term higher than a preset threshold, and adding any such standardized titles to the first query with an AND connector.