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 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the entity type is a skill and the one or more query rewriting rules include identifying a standardized function corresponding to the standardized entity having the entity identification in the standardized entity taxonomy and adding the standardized function to the first query with an AND connector.