GENERATING DESCRIPTIONS OF MATCHING RESOURCES BASED ON THE KIND, QUALITY, AND RELEVANCE OF AVAILABLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE MATCHING RESOURCES

摘要

Techniques are provided for generating descriptions of matching resources in a manner that takes into account the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about the matching resources. For example, after the search engine identifies matching resources based on the query terms, the search engine determines the kinds of available sources of information about each matching resource. For each matching resource, based on the kinds of available sources of information about the matching resource, one of a plurality of processes is selected to generate a description for the matching resource. Using the content-sensitive description generation techniques described herein, a single result set may include abstracts that were generated using several different processes, where the difference in process corresponds to a difference in the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about each matching resource.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
assigning a weight to each section of one or more sections in a document; finding a plurality of text strings within the document; wherein each text string of the plurality of text strings corresponds to at least one section of the one or more sections; wherein the section that corresponds to each text string includes at least a part of the text string; for each text string in the plurality of text strings, associating a score that is based at least in part on the weight that is associated with the section that corresponds to the text string; based, at least in part, on the score associated with each text string of the plurality of text strings, selecting one or more text strings, from the plurality of text strings, for generating an abstract or summary of the document; generating the abstract or summary of the document based, at least in part, on the one or more text strings; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.