Inventors:
Yufei Pan - North Brunswick NJ, US
Jiankuan Ye - Edison NJ, US
Ming Li - San Jose CA, US
Alessio Signorini - Boulder CO, US
Apostolos Gerasoulis - Edison NJ, US
Tomasz Imielinski - Princeton NJ, US
Assignee:
IAC Search & Media, Inc. - Oakland CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/00
Abstract:
In a method for a direct answer for search, a search query is received over a network, one or more answer entities are determined from one or more answer candidate snippets, with an answer candidate snippet having at least a portion of content available over the network for an answer candidate, a content identifier is determined for an answer candidate, a title is tokenized for the content identifier, a comparison is performed between a vector of tokens for the title and a vector of the one or more answer entities, an indicator of the relevance is adjusted for the content identifier in accordance with the comparison, and at least one answer candidate snippet is sent for a response to the search query.