Authoritative document identification

a document identification and document technology, applied in the field of information retrieval, can solve problems such as difficulty in identifying authoritative documents

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-07-06
GOOGLE LLC
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This makes it difficult to identify an authoritative document.

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[0043]FIG. 6 is an exemplary diagram of signals that may be considered when identifying the authoritativeness of a document according to an implementation consistent with the principles of the invention. As shown in FIG. 6, document 610 may be determined to be authoritative (i.e., receive a high authoritative score) for the location associated Big Nick's Pizza Joint located at 123 Main Street, Oakmont, Pa. 15302. As explained above, a combination of signals may be used to identify document 610 as authoritative for the location.

[0044] Authoritative document 610 is the destination corresponding to outlinks from a number of documents that mention all or part of the location or the business name. Authoritative document 610 is also the destination corresponding to outlinks whose anchor text matches all or part of the business name (e.g., Big Nick's Pizza Joint, Big Nick's Pizza, Big Nick's, Big Nick's Pizza Restaurant, Big Nicks Pizza, and Big Nick Pizza Joint). Authoritative document 6...

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A system determines documents that are associated with a location, identifies a group of signals associated with each of the documents, and determines authoritativeness of the documents for the location based on the signals.

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BACKGROUND [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] Implementations described herein relate generally to information retrieval and, more particularly, to the identification of authoritativeness of documents for a location. [0003] 2. Description of Related Art [0004] Modern computer networks, and in particular, the Internet, have made large bodies of information widely and easily available. Internet search engines, for instance, index many millions of web documents that are linked to the Internet. A user connected to the Internet can enter a simple search query to quickly locate web documents relevant to the search query. [0005] Frequently, users are interested in finding documents relating to a particular location. A document that is authoritative for the location, however, may not include the address of the location. Sometimes the address is located in a sub-document or in an image that cannot be analyzed (e.g., indexed). This makes it difficult to identify an authoritative document...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F12/00G06F17/30
CPCG06F17/30864G06F17/3087G06F16/9537G06F16/951G06F16/9538
Inventor EGNOR, DANIELCHAUDHRY, GEETA
Owner GOOGLE LLC
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