10. The search system of claim 1 , wherein the predefined portion of the query result comprises a predefined number of words, and wherein co-occurrences of the subject matter of the query and a name of the plurality of persons are determined to exist only if the subject matter of the query and the name occur within the predefined number of words from each other.
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.