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- Patent Title: Neural network for search retrieval and ranking
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Application No.: US16423081Application Date: 2019-05-27
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Publication No.: US11615149B2Publication Date: 2023-03-28
- Inventor: Corbin Louis Rosset , Bhaskar Mitra , David Anthony Hawking , Nicholas Eric Craswell , Fernando Diaz , Emine Yilmaz
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
- Main IPC: G06F16/30
- IPC: G06F16/30 ; G06F16/9038 ; G06N3/08

Abstract:
Described herein is a mechanism for utilizing a neural network to identify and rank search results. A machine learning model is trained by converting training data comprising query-document entries into query term-document entries. The query term-document entries are utilized to train the machine learning model. A set of query terms are identified. The query terms can be derived from a query history. The trained machine learning model is used to calculate document ranking scores for the query terms and the resultant scores are stored in a pre-calculated term-document index. A query to search the document index is broken down into its constituent terms and an aggregate document ranking score is calculated from a weighted sum of the document ranking scores corresponding to the individual query terms. Because the term-document index can be pre-calculated, it can be downloaded to provide deep learning search capabilities in a computationally limited environment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200380038A1 NEURAL NETWORK FOR SEARCH RETRIEVAL AND RANKING Public/Granted day:2020-12-03
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