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| 20090187517 | MODIFICATION OF RELATIONAL MODELS - Described herein is a system that facilitates modifying a relational model. The system includes a first model component that is a relational model that includes a plurality of atoms. The system further includes a modifier component that automatically assigns values to a plurality of atoms in the relational model by clustering atoms of the relational model to create a second model component, wherein the second model component is a relational model. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187540 | PREDICTION OF INFORMATIONAL INTERESTS - Described herein is a system that includes a receiver component that receives an indication that a user has accessed a search engine to initiate a search session. An analyzer component predicts informational interests of the user upon receipt of the indication and outputs an informational item that corresponds to the predicted informational interests of the user, wherein the analyzer component is configured to output the informational item prior to the user issuing a query to the search engine. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090271228 | CONSTRUCTION OF PREDICTIVE USER PROFILES FOR ADVERTISING - A system that facilitates targeted advertising is described in detail herein. The system includes a receiver component that receives user data that includes historical searching and browsing activity of a user. A profile generator component generates a user profile based at least in part upon a subset of the user data, wherein the user profile includes a plurality of keywords, wherein at least one keyword in the plurality of keywords is assigned a score that is indicative of a probability that an advertisement corresponding to the keyword will be monetized. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100057675 | Search Provider Recommendation - A component presents access to a recommended search provider via a user interface element. In an example embodiment, a device-implemented method for recommending a search provider includes acts of receiving, ascertaining, and modifying. A search query input is received. A recommended search provider is ascertained at least partially responsive to the search query input. A user interface is modified to indicate the recommended search provider. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100070554 | Balanced Routing of Questions to Experts - A question processing system routes questions among participants in a balanced and sustainable manner. Any participant can act as an inquirer (who poses questions) and an expert (who answers questions). In one illustrative case, the question processing system operates by: receiving a question from an inquirer; determining at least one expert that is appropriate to answer the question; and routing the question to the expert. The receiving, determining, and routing are repeated with respect to other inquirers and other experts to achieve a desired balance of information exchange among the plurality of participants of the electronic question processing system. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100208984 | EVALUATING RELATED PHRASES - A source keyword may be received multiple times and each time, in response, a machine-learning algorithm may be used to identify and rank respective matching-keywords that have been determined to match the source keyword. A portion or unit of content may be generated based on one of the ranked matching-keywords. The content is transmitted via a network to a client device and a user's impression of the content is recorded. The machine-learning algorithm may continue to rank matching-keywords for arbitrary source keywords while the recorded impressions and corresponding matched-keywords, respectively, are used to train the machine-learning algorithm. The training alters how the machine-learning algorithm ranks matching-keywords determined to match the source keyword. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100287156 | ON-SITE SEARCH ENGINE FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB - Providing updates to a computing device having a search engine capable of searching a local data store having an index with data related to a plurality of sites located on a wide area network. A first index builder capable of accessing sites on a wide area network is provided. The first index builder retrieves and analyzes data from the sites to create index data related to the sites. The method further includes communicating index data to the locally stored database for incrementally updating the index. A computing device capable of accessing a local data storage device is also provided. The device includes an index stored on the storage device including information related to data stored on the wide area network, a search engine capable of searching the index to retrieve information in response to a query, and a display. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100317444 | USING A HUMAN COMPUTATION GAME TO IMPROVE SEARCH ENGINE PERFORMANCE - Human computation games are provided wherein a player is shown a page, such as a web page. The player is then asked to provide one or more terms that are intended to cause a search engine to return the page in response to performing a query using the terms. The terms provided by the player during game play are then collected, stored, and utilized to improve the performance of the search engine. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110040721 | MODIFICATION OF RELATIONAL MODELS - Described herein is a system that facilitates modifying a relational model. The relational model is modified based at least in part upon an identity of a user, and the modified relational model is used to predict queries or advertisements that are of interest to the user. Examples of relational models that are modifiable include a Markov Logic Network, a probabilistic relational model, a BLOG relational model, a structural logistic regression relational model, a relational dependency network, or a probabilistic entity relationship model. | 02-17-2011 |
