Linkedin Corporation

Ada Yu

Farid Hosseini

Bing Zhao

Christina Allen

Pi-Chuan Chang

Tianhua Duan

Daniel Bikel

Joyce Wang

Techniques are provided to allow users of a social network to have multilingual profiles (or profiles in second languages that are different than the users' native, or original, profile languages). In one technique, a translation model is applied to one or more data items (in a first language) in a user's profile to generate translated data items in a second language. The translated data items are displayed to the user (or an online social 'friend' of the user) and the user is allowed to select one of the translated data items to include in the user's 'second language' profile. The selection may then be used to improve the translation model.

Generating multi-language social network user profiles by translation

During an analysis technique, a cohort of individuals is identified based on a set of attributes. Significance metrics for the individuals in the cohort are calculated based on profiles of the individuals and behaviors of the group of individuals, which includes the cohort, when interacting with the profiles. For example, a significance metric for a given individual may include a number of views of a profile of the given individual, by a group of individuals, during a time interval and/or a number of connection requests to the profile of the given individual, by the group of individuals, during the time interval. Based on the significance metrics, the subset of the individuals may be identified. This subset may include individuals that have achieved career milestones exceeding those of the other individuals in the cohort (e.g., notable individuals).

Aggregating content related to a notable individual

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Ada Yu