Associating features with entities, such as categories or web page documents, and/or weighting such features

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Features that may be used to represent relevance information (e.g. properties characteristics, etc.) of an entity, such as a document o concept for example, may be associated with the document by accepting an identifier that identifies a document; obtaining search query information (and/or other serving parameter information) related to the document using the document identifier, determining features using the obtained query information (and/or other serving parameter information), and associating the features determined with the document. Weights of such features may be similarly determined. The weights may be determined using scores. The scores may be a function of one or more of …