Abstract: Methods and systems for simulating a search, for the purpose of evaluating one or more scoring functions used in ordering item listings for presentation in a search results page are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a simulation platform includes a real-time simulation module that receives search result sets for search queries that result in the conclusion of a transaction. The result set is then processed by the simulation platform with one or more test scoring functions, such that the resulting position of the item listing that has resulted in the transaction can be compared with the actual position at which the item listing was displayed in the actual search results. For each test scoring function, an average rank shift metric is determined, and displayed, thereby providing a metric with which to base decisions about which scoring functions to use in the production system.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a query image and a user tap location, processing the received query image based on the user tap location, identifying one or more entities associated with the processed query image and in response to receiving (i) the query image, and (ii) the user tap location, providing information about the identified one or more of the entities.

Abstract: A retrieval support method including acquiring, for each of a plurality of categories relating to computer systems, frequency information including a frequency of occurrence of each of a plurality of terms included in pieces of text information on the computer systems, specifying, a plurality of first terms and a plurality of second terms, the plurality of first terms being terms which is not used in common to the plurality of categories, the plurality of second terms being a terms which is used in common, generating correspondence information, for each of the plurality of first terms, that associates selected first term with at least one of the plurality of second terms which is included in a piece of text information including the selected first term, and generating specified information to identify each combination of first terms, belonging to different category among the plurality of categories, that have correlativity.

Abstract: A server computing system including a storage device and a processing device. The storage device storing application records including application attributes and location data indicating a geographic area associated with an application. The processing device configured to receive a search query comprising a search term, identify application records stored by comparing the search term with the application attributes, and determine a search location. The processing device also configured to: for each of the identified application records, compute a distance scoring feature based on a distance between the search location and the geographic area indicated in the application record and determine a relevance score for the application record based on the distance scoring feature; select download addresses from the application records based on the relevance scores; and transmit the download addresses to the client computing device.

Abstract: The present invention may provide a method and apparatus for building a personalized memory compilation for members of a group: providing digitally encoded images, text and other data; analyzing data; eliciting a characteristic of data; selecting a plurality of the provided data; arranging the provided data, to generate a personalized memory compilation; wherein at least one of a selecting or an arranging step is performed in response to elicited characteristics. Additionally, the invention may comprise a collaborative method and apparatus for gathering, enriching, preserving, and sharing memories for members of a group using the combination of 1) collaboration through nominal group recall and 2) recording of personal preferences to produce a digital asset that contains a unique blend of selected profiles, images, stories, personalized notes, and other relevant content from more than one group member to constitute a more complete and accurate rendering of an important occasion experienced by the group.

Abstract: An approach is defined to establish consumption analytics of network nodes of a social network. Content is tagged and the content consumption analytics are derived from the content consumption. The content analytics and related heuristic is applied to new content shared in the social network. The content is compared to policies for content push operations and cellular network constraints to determine whether the content is proactively pushed to a mobile device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving queries, and for each received query: receiving data indicating resources identified by a search operation as being responsive to the query, wherein the search operation scores each of the resources based, in part, on features of the resource and the query, selecting a subset of the resources, determining, from the subset of resources and for each of the features of the resources and the query, an impact measure that measures the impact of the feature on the ranking of the resources that belong to the subset, adjusting the search operation based on the respective impact measures, and initiating the search operation to re-score the resources in the subset of resources based, in part, on the adjustment and to rank the subset of resources according to a second order that is different from the first order.

Abstract: In monitoring changes to a document corpus, a document system extracts elements from a plurality of documents in the document corpus by the document system and establishes links between the elements to form an initial set of inter-document relationships for the plurality of documents in the document corpus by the document system. When a new document is added to the document corpus, the document system extracts a new set of elements from the new document by the document system and compares the new set of elements with the elements corresponding to the plurality of documents in the document corpus. The document system determines whether any existing inter-documents relationships in the initial set of inter-document relationships is changed by the new document, and responsive to determining that a given existing inter-document relationship is changed, modifies the given existing inter-document relationship based on the change.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device receives text input from a user. The computing device determines an action by the user indicated in the text, and at least a part of a phrase in the text that indicates one or more topics associated with the action. The computing device determines whether the at least part of a phrase matches one or more phrases stored in an indexed database. When the at least part of a phrase does not match one or more phrases of the indexed database, then the computing device determines a complete phrase input by the user, and determines one or more topics to be associated with the complete phrase. The computing device stores the complete phrase as an instance of the complete phrase. The computing device determines whether at least a threshold number of instances of the complete phrase has been stored.

Abstract: A contextual application organizer framework learns about application usage behavior based on user context from multiple different signals (e.g., email, OFFICE graph, Short Message Service, browsing history, search history, device usage, location) and surfaces relevant applications that a user may need for the current context or activity. A user context graph is created from user life events and an index of user activity of applications. Application usage signals are mapped from user preferences and world knowledge to the user context graph. Upon detecting a current user context, relevant applications derived from the user context graph are surfaced in a contextual application organizer.

Abstract: Storage regions in a database are associated with respective intervals including first and second interval values indicating a value range for values within that storage region. The first interval values are sorted into an order that determines a scanning order for a data operation on data in the storage regions. The storage regions are scanned in the scanning order to arrange data from the storage regions in at least a partially ordered sequence for the data operation.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a request for a user-list including one or more second users of the online social network. The method includes calculating, for each of the second users, a contact-score between the first user and the second user based on social interactions and non-social interactions between the users. The social interactions are interactions on the online social network visible to the first user based on privacy settings associated with the second user and the respective social interaction. The non-social interactions are interactions on a third-party application accessed by the online social network, shared based on a privacy setting associated with the third-party application. The method includes generating the user-list with references to second users having a contact-score above a threshold contact-score. The method includes providing instructions for displaying the user-list.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for determining similarities in content preferences among a plurality of users and generating content recommendations based on a requesting user's content consumption history. A requesting user may access the recommendation system to request content items for consumption. The recommendation system may be configured to identify users having consumed the same or similar content items as the requesting user, and to determine a ratio of content items consumed by the requesting user and an identified user to the total number of content items previously consumed by the requesting user. In one embodiment, the system may determine a degree of similarity in content preferences between the two users based on an inverse proportion of a level of popularity associated with the content items consumed by the requesting user and the identified user (e.g., sampled user).

Abstract: Storage regions in a database are associated with respective intervals including first and second interval values indicating a value range for values within that storage region. The first interval values are sorted into an order that determines a scanning order for a data operation on data in the storage regions. The storage regions are scanned in the scanning order to arrange data from the storage regions in at least a partially ordered sequence for the data operation.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a system for providing content. A stored query and a set of features of the stored query are accessed. The set of features of the stored query specifies a main query topic and at least one query subtopic. A hierarchical application classification for a particular application is accessed that specifies at least a main application category and an application sub-category for the particular application. A level of similarity is determined between the set of features of the stored query and the hierarchical application classification. A determination is made that the particular application is relevant to the stored query based on the level of similarity meeting a specified threshold. The stored query is indexed as a query that triggers presentation of information related to the particular application when the stored query is received.

Abstract: An online system predicts the user's activity on the online system during a future time interval (e.g., the next day). The system collects activity data, such as actions that the user has taken on the system. The system predicts whether the user is likely to be active during the future time interval based on features extracted from the activity data. This system determines selection of notifications and delivery of notifications based on the predicted time when the user is likely to be active on the online system. The system further records the user's past interactions with notifications, such as whether the user viewed the notification, whether the user interacted with a content item associated with the notification, and so on. If system determines a rate of delivery of notifications to the user based on the frequency of past user interactions with notifications.

Abstract: A method for classifying and searching data includes marking classifications on a plurality of records according to data comprised by root cause fields or comment fields of the records; generating an index according to data comprised by synopsis fields of the records; marking weights on the records according to categories of data comprised by the synopsis fields of the records; utilizing the index for searching a plurality of corresponding records from the records according to a keyword; and selecting a plurality of related records from the corresponding records according to the weights of the corresponding records, and listing the classifications of the related records.

Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and a computer system for processing data are disclosed. First data associated with a search may be accessed. Second data may be accessed from a database using the first data, where the second data may be associated with at least one sentiment of the first data. The second data may include at least one score, at least one classification, and at least one degree, some combination thereof, etc. Third data may be generated, based on the second data, for performing at least one operation associated with the search results. The at least one operation may include filtering the search results, ranking the search results, displaying an image associated with the at least one sentiment, some combination thereof, etc.

Abstract: Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for generating, enhancing, applying and updating knowledge neurons for providing decision making information to a wide variety of client applications. Domain keywords for knowledge domains are generated from domain data of selected domain data sources, along with keyword values for the domain keywords, and are used to generate knowledge artifacts for inclusion in knowledge neurons. These knowledge neurons may be enhanced by domain knowledge data sets found in various data sources and used to generate neural responses to neural queries received from the client applications. Neural feedbacks may be used to update and/or generate knowledge neurons.

Abstract: A system and method for organizing and retrieving conditioned data is disclosed. The data retrieval application includes a criteria determination engine, an optimization engine and a retrieval engine. The criteria determination engine determines criteria set for a list of data elements. The optimization engine organizes the list of data elements into a directed acyclic graph embodying a skip list data structure and optimizes the constructed directed acyclic graph. The retrieval engine receives a query, determines the features of the query, queries the directed acyclic graph using the features and retrieves a node representing a user interface data based on the criteria set matching the features.

Abstract: Methods and systems for determining the preferences of hosts offering accommodations are disclosed. In one embodiment, an online booking system models the preferences of hosts based on statistical relationships between features of previously received accommodation reservation requests and the acceptance of those reservation requests by the hosts. In particular, the system classifies reservation requests based on several features—a reservation request either possesses a feature or does not possess a feature. The preference of a host for a particular request feature is modeled based on the relationship between the reservation requests that possess the feature and the reservation requests that are accepted by the host.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are provided for resource scoring adjustment based on entity selection. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of accessing resource data that specifies, for each of a plurality of resources, a resource identifier and one or more referenced entities, and accessing search term data that specifies a plurality of search terms, and for each search term, a selection value for each resource, each selection value being based on user selections of search results that referenced the resource to which the selection value corresponds. From the resource data and search term data, for each search term and each entity, a search term-entity selection value is determined that is based on the selection values of resources that reference the entity and that were referenced by search results in response to a query that included the search term.

Abstract: An online booking system allows users to search and book listings of goods or services. When a user searches for listings, the listings are ranked and scored based on a number of factors including the location and the price of the listing, the number and quality of reviews and the number of successful prior bookings. In some situations, the listing scores overly skew the top ranking results to a particular region. The listing scores may be modified to address this skewing of results. When diversity in search results is desired, the listing scores are modified such that the top ranking results that are located in a diverse set of regions. When granular relevance of search results is desired, the listing scores are modified such that the top ranking results are located in regions that are more relevant to the search than the region to which the results are skewed.

Abstract: Unit conversion methods and systems that use an auto-scaling algorithm to sort conversion results. A plurality of unit conversion results, which represent a conversion of an input value in an input unit, are sorted into a sorted list based on the scale of the values in the results and the sorted list is presented (e.g. displayed) to a user. In one embodiment, the sorting is done without regard to the units in the conversion results and values between zero and one are transformed before sorting.

Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to add a tagged snippet of multimedia content to a playlist are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises an automatic content recognition search service to search a fingerprint database to find a match between query fingerprints for a snippet of multimedia content captured from a multimedia program at a timestamp and reference fingerprints of matching reference multimedia content stored in the fingerprint database, a tag service to generate a tag representing the snippet of multimedia content, wherein the tag, the timestamp, meta information associated with the matching reference multimedia content, and a monitored variable for a number of viewers of the snippet of multimedia content are stored in a database storage as a tagged snippet of multimedia content, and to add the tagged snippet of multimedia content to a playlist for an identified multimedia program if the number of viewers of the tagged snippet exceeds a threshold.

Abstract: In an approach to achieving consistent reporting, one or more processors receive a request to include a set of data analysis and visualization parameters in a distributed ledger, such as the blockchain fabric distributed ledger. One or more processors may determine whether the set of data analysis and visualization parameters is consistent with a set of pre-determined rules recorded in the distributed ledger. One or more processors may additionally perform a corrective action for the set of data analysis and visualization parameters responsive to determining that the set of data analysis and visualization parameters is not consistent with the set of pre-determined rules recorded in the distributed ledger. One or more processors may further store the set of data analysis and visualization parameters in the distributed ledger and generate a report of a first dataset based on the set of data analysis and visualization parameters.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first set of one or more images are identified as a list of image candidates to be matched with a content item that is identified in response to a search query, where the content item is provided by a first content provider. A first lookup operation is performed in an image whitelist table to identify a second set of one or more images that are associated with a second content provider other than the first content provider. Any image candidate that is included in the second set of the images is removed from the list of image candidates. One of the candidate images is then selected to be associated with the content item.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing search results. An expert search thread associated with a search term is received. A first query from a first user based on the search term is received, and a set of results to the first query is provided, where the set of results includes the expert search thread. A credibility score is determined for the expert search thread. A second query is received from a second user based on the search term. A placement of the expert search thread in a set of results for the second query is determined based on the credibility score for the expert search thread, and the set of results for the second query is provided to the second user.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for comparing similarity of questioning answer system ground truth answers to question answering system result answers. The mechanism receives question answering system results. The question answering system results comprise questions posed to the question answering system, answers returned by the question answering system for each question posed to the question answering system, and a confidence value for each answer. The question answering system is trained or tested using the ground truth questions and answers. The mechanism performs a matching operation comparing each result answer in the question answering system results to a corresponding ground truth answer. The matching operation is an asymmetric containment comparison and wherein the matching operation determines similarity of each result answer to the corresponding ground truth answer. The mechanism determines whether each result answer is right or wrong based on results of the matching operation.

Abstract: A dynamic presentation of contextually relevant content during an authoring experience. As a user writes about a topic, the authored content is analyzed to identify one or more keywords that may be used to identify, retrieve and present suggested content to the user. The suggested content may be received from one or more resources, such as a search engine, a data store associated with the user, social media resources or other local or remote files. Techniques described herein might also select the keywords from authored content based on a cursor position. As a result, the suggested content may change as the cursor moves to a new position in the authored content. In addition, techniques described herein provide a user interface control that allows for the selection and de-selection of one or more keywords, which allows a user to tailor the suggested content by toggling one or more controls.

Abstract: A multimedia apparatus and a method for providing content thereof are provided. In the method for providing content of the multimedia apparatus, user private information corresponding to authentication information of a user is acquired when the authentication information of the user for execution of content is received, a state of the user using at least one sensor is detected during reproduction of the content, a parameter of the content is changed according to the acquired private information and the state of the user, and the content is reproduced with the changed parameter.

Abstract: A multi-dimensional graphic user interface displays selected types of information regarding items included in one or more databases or returned by a search in accordance with locations on a two-dimensional display area or projection of a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional area and provides for selective display of information about respective items in a database (e.g. metadata) as additional dimensions of the display which may be suppressed and/or selectively introduced to avoid user distraction or obscuring information or for comparison between screens which may indicate to a user the degree to which a particular item may or may not be germane to an issue or particular subject matter of interest. The graphic user interface thus provides an effective tool for evaluating search results and organizing detailed review thereof.

Abstract: In response to receiving a question, a corpus of textual data having content related to the question is obtained. At least one segment is extracted from the corpus of textual data. At least one question-answer pair is generated from at least one segment. Each question-answer pair comprises a candidate question and an answer corresponding to the candidate question.

Abstract: In a method for generating a schema for a corpus of data, a first corpus of data is received, wherein the first corpus of data includes unstructured text. A processor identifies a set of one or more entity relationships within the first corpus of data, wherein an entity relationship comprises a first entity, a second entity, and a specified relationship between the entities. A processor compares the set of one or more entity relationships to a second corpus of data, wherein the second corpus of data includes text of a subject matter different than the corpus of data. A processor determines a score for each entity relationship based on the comparison to the second corpus of data. A processor generates a schema for the first corpus of data based on the score for each entity relationship of the set of one or more entity relationships.

Abstract: A combined structure and style network is described. Initially, a large set of training images, having a variety of different styles, is obtained. Each of these training images is associated with one of multiple different predetermined style categories indicating the image's style and one of multiple different predetermined semantic categories indicating objects depicted in the image. Groups of these images are formed, such that each group includes an anchor image having one of the styles, a positive-style example image having the same style as the anchor image, and a negative-style example image having a different style. Based on those groups, an image style network is generated to identify images having desired styling by recognizing visual characteristics of the different styles. The image style network is further combined, according to a unifying training technique, with an image structure network configured to recognize desired objects in images irrespective of image style.

Abstract: A speech communication system and a method of improving communication in such a speech communication system between at least a first user and a second user may be configured so the system (a) transcribes a recorded portion of a speech communication between the at least first and second user to form a transcribed portion, (b) selects and marks at least one of the words of the transcribed portion which is considered to be a keyword of the speech communication, (c) performs a search for each keyword and produces at least one definition for each keyword, (d) calculates a trustworthiness factor for each keyword, each trustworthiness factor indicating a calculated validity of the respective definition(s), and (e) displays the transcribed portion as well as each of the keywords together with the respective definition and the trustworthiness factor thereof to at least one of the first user and the second user.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for evaluating a search prompting system and a corresponding apparatus. The method includes: extracting corresponding assessment terms at random according to an assessment target; acquiring in sequence a minimum number of words that needs to be entered to cover each of the assessment terms; calculating a corresponding coverage efficiency factor and a corresponding prompt efficiency factor according to the minimum number of words that needs to be entered to cover each of the assessment terms, and calculating a coverage rate of each of the assessment terms according to the coverage efficiency factor and the prompt efficiency factor; and performing weighted averaging calculation on the coverage rate of each of the assessment terms, to obtain a coverage rate of the assessment target.

Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating searching, labeling, and/or filtering of digital media items are described. Users may provide queries for digital media items. Results from a search may be presented to the users. A user may provide selection of one or more displayed digital media items. A user selection may provide a digital media item exemplar that may be used to update the user-provided queries. Further searches based on the updated queries may be performed. A repository of digital media items may be queried both with an original text query supplied by a user and an updated query based user selection of digital media items returned from the original text query search. A user may be able to refine an initial text, image, and/or other query without having to know additional search terms.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of IOS terminals, and provides a method and device for offline webpage browsing and a computer storage medium, wherein the method includes: a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) input by a user is received; when an instruction for adding the URL is received, storing the URL into a preset offline browsing list, downloading a webpage resource file of a webpage corresponding to the URL into a specified storage position, and compressing the downloaded webpage resource file into an executable document; and in an offline state, a URL in the offline browsing list is received and an executable document corresponding to the selected URL is loaded so as to implement offline webpage browsing. The problems existing in the prior art that a webpage resource file is incompletely loaded and the loading efficiency is low may be solved effectively by the disclosure.

Abstract: A method and a computer-readable medium for method for searching a plurality of documents. Each document is structured into a set of blocks and each block is associated with a block ID. The method includes receiving a search query including a search term having at least one search term attribute; identifying at least one block ID based on a correlation between the at least one search term attribute and the set of blocks; and identifying at least one document based on a correlation between the set of blocks and the documents. Methods for generating a data structure for searching documents are also described.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an online social network may receive, from a client system of a first user of the online social network, a search query inputted by the first user; and identify one or more of the entities matching the search query. At least a portion of the entities being identified based at least in part on a recorded geographic proximity between the first user and each identified entity. The online social network may access one or more proximity coefficients for the identified entities from a proximity-coefficient system of the online social network; calculate a score for each identified entity based at least in part on the value of the accessed proximity coefficients for the identified entity and social-graph information associated with the identified entity; and send, to the client system of the first user in response to the received search query, search results for display to the first user.

Abstract: A controller for user authentication and access control, configured to: store data representing a graph having: nodes representing data elements associated with accesses made using an access token; and links among the nodes representing connections between the data elements identified in details of the accesses. In response to receiving details of an access made using the access token, the controller updates the graph according to the details and determines a plurality of measurements of the graph. After computing a score of the graph based on a weighted average of the measurements, the controller authenticates the user of the access and/or controls the access based on the score.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing real-time guidance for content collection. One of the methods includes receiving user input from a user through a user interface presentation, determining, from the received user input using a first model, one or more provided data elements occurring in the user input, determining, from the one or more provided data elements occurring in the user input using a second model, one or more intended tasks, determining, for each intended task of the one or more intended tasks using a third model, one or more suggested data elements, ranking the one or more suggested data elements, and updating the user interface presentation with a user interface element suggesting that the user provide the one or more needed data elements.

Abstract: Techniques for extrapolative searches are described herein. In one or more implementations, a searches are conducted using an extrapolative and additive mechanism that expands a specific query into one or more generalized queries. To do so, keywords contained in an input search query are extracted to use as a basis for a search related to content. The extracted keywords are expanded by categorization of name entities recognized from the keywords into corresponding generalized terms. Query strings to use for the search are built using combinations of keywords that are extracted from the text and corresponding generalized terms obtained by expanding the keywords. A search is conducted using the expanded queries and images results returned by the search are exposed as suggested images to represent the content.

Abstract: A method for semantic searching includes receiving a user input including seed data and a semantic input at a search system. The method further includes automatically generating a filter set based on the user input, where the filter set including a plurality of documents that correspond to the seed data, and includes providing the filter set and the semantic input to a semantic search engine. The method also includes receiving a set of semantic search results from the semantic search engine based on the filter set and the semantic input. The set of semantic search results corresponds to a sub-set of the filter set that is semantically similar to the semantic input.

Abstract: For producing digest block segmentations based on reference segmentations in a data deduplication system using a processor device in a computing environment, digests are calculated for an input data chunk. Data matches and data mismatches are produced based on matching input digests with reference digests. Secondary digest block segmentations are obtained from similar reference intervals for each of the data mismatches and applied to the input data.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for ranking search results based upon content creation trends. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for ranking search results based upon content creation trends includes first receiving a set of results from a search engine produced in response to a search engine query of one or more search terms. The method additionally includes ranking the results of the result set according to at least one ranking factor. The method yet further includes retrieving trend data for terms associated with either or both of the results and/or the search terms. Finally, the method includes weighting the ranked results in the result set according to the retrieved trend data.

Abstract: Expanding the corpus of a question answering system. The question answering system is adapted to generate a candidate answer to a query. The candidate answer may be incorporated into the corpus of the question answering system if the candidate answer meets or exceeds a predetermined requirement. By expanding the corpus with material that has been determined to be useful for answering a query, for example, the corpus may be expanded automatically in an accurate and efficient manner.

Abstract: A machine is configured to perform an example method that causes the machine to parse sub-phrases within a phrase, recognize that a sub-phrase has or can have a geographically specific meaning, and notify a user that the sub-phrase is being processed using the geographically specific meaning. For example, supposing a user has communicated a phrase, the machine builds sub-phrases from the n-grams of the phrase and detects that an n-gram has a geographically specific meaning, thus disambiguating the n-gram. This disambiguation is performed using one or more geographically specific databases of n-grams. The machine determines that a geographical location is relevant to the n-gram, selects a specialized search procedure for the n-gram, and obtains search results using the selected specialized search procedure. The machine may also notify the user that the n-gram or a sub-phrase in which the n-gram appears is being processed using the geographically specific meaning.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and computer program product for ranking search results based upon content creation trends. In an embodiment of the invention, a computer program product for ranking search results based upon content creation trends includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code for first receiving a set of results from a search engine produced in response to a search engine query of one or more search terms, for ranking the results of the result set according to at least one ranking factor, for retrieving trend data for terms associated with either or both of the results and/or the search terms, and for weighting the ranked results in the result set according to the retrieved trend data.