7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the predefined portion of the query result comprises a document and related metadata, the related metadata comprising one or more of document body metadata, title metadata, author metadata, anchor text metadata, and metadata indicative of a hierarchy of document sections.
1. A search system, comprising: a relevance model stored on a computer readable medium; a computer processor that applies the relevance model to a query so as to identify a query result and generate a relevance score indicative of relevancy of the query result to the query; a co-occurrence model, stored on the computer readable medium, for determining textual co-occurrences within a predefined portion of the query result, that comprises less than all of the query result, wherein the computer processor: identifies, from the query result, a plurality of persons related to a subject matter of the query; and applies the co-occurrence model to the query result to generate a co-occurrence score based on a number of textual co-occurrences of both the subject matter of the query and a name of the plurality of persons within the predefined portion of the query result; and a ranking component that generates a ranked list of the plurality of persons based at least in part on the relevance score for the query result and the co-occurrence score.