Methods for search result presentation and for search request processing and computer device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12093256-B2
Application number	US-202318525511-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2023
Priority date	Jan 12, 2022
Publication date	Sep 17, 2024
Grant date	Sep 17, 2024

Abstract

The disclosure provides methods and apparatuses, electronic device, storage medium, computer program product and computer program for search result presentation and for search request processing. The method for search result presentation includes: in response to a trigger operation, initiating a search request for a target question, the target question corresponding to a plurality of answers; acquiring a plurality of pieces of structured information characterizing the respective answers, wherein the structured information is obtained by extracting from search results that support the respective answers and aggregating according to a target aggregation approach corresponding to an attribute feature of the target question, the search results are multimedia contents recalled on the basis of the target question, and each piece of structured information comprises an argument and/or a premise of an answer and core content of the answer; and presenting the plurality of pieces of the structured information on a search result page.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for search result presentation, comprising:
in response to a trigger operation, initiating a search request for a target question, the target question corresponding to a plurality of answers;
acquiring a plurality of pieces of structured information characterizing the respective answers, wherein the structured information is obtained by extracting initial structured information from search results that support the respective answers and aggregating the initial structured information according to a target aggregation approach corresponding to an attribute feature of the target question, the search results are multimedia contents recalled based on the target question, and each piece of structured information comprises an argument and/or a premise of an answer and core content of an answer; the attribute feature of the target question comprises a first type in which the answer is related to the premise or a second type in which the answer is not related to the premise; in the case where the attribute feature of the target question is of the first type, aggregating the initial structured information based on the premise in the structured information; and in the case where the attribute feature of the target question is of the second type, aggregating the initial structured information based on the core content in the structured information; and

presenting the plurality of pieces of the structured information on a search result page.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the structured information is obtained by extracting initial structured information from the search results and then aggregating the initial structured information according to the target aggregation approach corresponding to the attribute feature of the target question,
wherein after a plurality of candidate search results is determined based on the search request, the search results are filtered based on preset authority scores of the plurality of candidate search results and the degree of relevance between the plurality of candidate search results and the target question.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein
in the case where the attribute feature of the target question is of the first type, each piece of the structured information at least includes core content and premise of the answer; and
in the case where the attribute feature of the target question is of the second type, each piece of the structured information at least includes core content and argument of the answer.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the initial structured information is extracted from the search results based on a pre-trained structured information extraction model.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the presenting the plurality of pieces of the structured information on the search result page comprises:
constructing answer information corresponding to the structured information to answer the target question, based on each piece of the structured information; and
presenting answer information for the plurality of pieces of the structured information side by side on the search result page.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the presenting answer information for the plurality of the structured information on the search result page comprises:
presenting the plurality of pieces of the structured information on the search result page, and search results corresponding to the structured information.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the presenting the plurality of pieces of the structured information on the search result page and search results corresponding to the structured information comprises:
presenting the core content of the answer in the plurality of pieces of the structured information on the search result page, and presenting a content card of the core content, the content card presenting a part of the multimedia content of the search results, the content card supporting a sliding presentation.

8. A method for search request processing, comprising:
receiving a search request carrying a target question sent from a client, the target question corresponding to a plurality of answers;
determining a search result corresponding to the search request, and determining an attribute feature of the target question, wherein the attribute feature of the target question comprises a first type in which the answer is related to the premise or a second type in which the answer is not related to the premise;
for each search result, after extracting initial structured information from the search result, aggregating the initial structured information based on a target aggregation approach corresponding to the attribute feature of the target question, and determining a plurality of pieces of structured information, wherein each piece of the structured information comprises an argument and/or a premise of an answer and core content of an answer, in the case where the attribute feature of the target question is of the first type, aggregating the initial structured information based on the premise in the structured information; and in the case where the attribute feature of the target question is of the second type, aggregating the initial structured information based on the core content in the structured information; and
sending the plurality of pieces of structured information to the client so as to present the structured information through the client.

9. A computer device, comprising: a processor, a memory and a bus, wherein the memory is configured to store machine-readable instructions that can be executed by the processor; and when the computer device is running, the processor communicates with the memory through the bus, and the machine-readable instructions are executed by the processor to perform the steps of a method for search result presentation, the method comprising:
in response to a trigger operation, initiating a search request for a target question, the target question corresponding to a plurality of answers;
acquiring a plurality of pieces of structured information characterizing the respective answers, wherein the structured information is obtained by extracting initial structured information from search results that support the respective answers and aggregating the initial structured information according to a target aggregation approach corresponding to an attribute feature of the target question, the search results are multimedia contents recalled based on the target question, and each piece of structured information comprises an argument and/or a premise of an answer and core content of an answer, the attribute feature of the target question comprises a first type in which the answer is related to the premise or a second type in which the answer is not related to the premise; in the case where the attribute feature of the target question is of the first type, aggregating the initial structured information based on the premise in the structured information; and in the case where the attribute feature of the target question is of the second type, aggregating the initial structured information based on the core content in the structured information; and
presenting the plurality of pieces of the structured information on a search result page.

10. The computer device of claim 9 , wherein the structured information is obtained by extracting initial structured information from the search results and then aggregating the initial structured information according to the target aggregation approach corresponding to the attribute feature of the target question,
wherein after a plurality of candidate search results is determined based on the search request, the search results are filtered based on preset authority scores of the plurality of candidate s

Assignees

• Beijing Bytedance Network Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lin Yating
• Wu Yujie
• Hou Mulan
• Liu Qingqing
• Li Junpeng
• Wu Junxin
• Yu Xin

Classifications

• G06F16/9538 Primary

  Presentation of query results · CPC title

• G06F16/248

  Presentation of query results · CPC title

• G06F16/24565

  Triggers; Constraints · CPC title

• G06F16/90332 Primary

  Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems · CPC title

• G06F16/24556

  Aggregation; Duplicate elimination · CPC title