Yahoo! Inc.

Ashwin Kumar V Machanavajjhala

Philip Lewis Bohannon

Srujana Merugu

Minos N Garofalakis

Jayavel Shanmugasundaram

Erik Nathan Vee

Sathiya Keerthi Selvaraj

Arun Shankar Iyer

Pedro DeRose

A system is disclosed for obtaining and aggregating opinions generated by multiple sources with respect to one or more objects. The disclosed system uses observed variables associated with an opinion and a probabilistic model to estimate latent properties of that opinion. With those latent properties, the disclosed system may enable publishers to reliably and comprehensively present object information to interested users.

Opinion aggregation system

A system is disclosed for reconciling opinions generated by agents with respect to one or more predicates. The disclosed system may use observed variables and a probabilistic model including latent parameters to estimate a truth score associated with each of the predicates. The truth score, as well as one or more of the latent parameters of the probabilistic model, may be estimated based on the observed variables. The truth score generated by the disclosed system may enable publishers to reliably represent the truth of a predicate to interested users.

System for opinion reconciliation

The subject matter disclosed herein relates to processing information regarding events. In one particular example, a stabbing query may be formulated in response to an event. One or more sets are associated with and/or mapped to nodes of a tree.

System and/or method for processing events

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Ashwin Kumar V Machanavajjhala