FAST AND SCALABLE CROWD CONSENSUS TOOL

• Main Authors: MULERO, VICTOR MUNTES, DOMINIAK, JACEK, SIMO, MARC SOLE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.10.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; 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

Systems and methods are provided for aiding participants in meaningfully contributing to event online Q&A with minimal loss of attention to the event. As a user is inputting an event contribution fragment, probable event contribution completions are predicted. Based on the predicted event contribution completions, semantically-similar, prior-received event contributions are presented to the user. The user is permitted to act upon the similar contributions in lieu of completing and/or publishing his or her own contribution. For instance, the user may be provided the ability to vote on, comment on, or amend the semantically-similar, prior-received event contribution in lieu of completing and/or publishing his or her own contribution. Upon receiving an indication of a desired user action with respect to a semantically-similar, prior-received event contribution, the user-input event contribution fragment is discarded and the user's action on the prior-received event contribution is published in lieu thereof.