Measuring phrase association on online social networks

• Main Authors: Raina, Rajat, Ringger, Eric, Kamichetty, Hetunandan Munisharan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.04.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving multiple posts containing each of the query terms after receiving a search query for posts from a user of an online social network, identifying, from an index of known phrases, one or more known phrases in the text of the retrieved posts, filtering the retrieved posts to generate a filtered set of posts, wherein the filtering comprises removing each post not containing at least one of the identified known phrases, computing features for each of the identified known phrases, calculating a score for each post in the filtered set based on the features of the identified known phrases, ranking the posts based on the calculated scores, and sending instructions, to the client system, for generating a search-results interface comprising references to one or more of the posts presented in ranked order.