Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ashwini Lakshmi Narasimhan

Wende E Copfer

Venkata Sreekanth Kannepalli

Shabnam Erfani

Jin Young Kim

Frederick David Jones

Balagopal Chenicheri

Matthew Vincent Panico

A method for identifying documents that are similar in content to an input document includes receiving a request for identifying similar documents from among a plurality of candidate documents, retrieving document classification attributes for the input document and the candidate documents, where the document classification attributes are document level attributes. The method also includes comparing the document classification attributes of the input document with classification attributes of the candidate documents to identify a subset of the candidate documents having matching document classification attributes, retrieving semantic entities from the input document and from candidate documents in the subset, pairwise comparing the semantic entity attribute of the input document with the semantic entity attribute of the candidate documents in the subset to identify semantic entities having matching semantic attributes, calculating a content similarity score between the semantic entity of the input document and the semantic entity of the candidate document in the subset, calculating a total similarity score for the candidate documents in the subset based on the content similarity score, a number of matching document classification attributes, and weight factors, and selecting similar documents from the subset based on the total similarity score.

System and method of determining content similarity by comparing semantic entity attributes

A calendar application server, a computer-readable storage medium, and a corresponding method for food service management for food-associated events within the context of a calendar application are described herein. The computer-readable storage medium includes computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processor(s), cause the processor(s) to associate food services with a food-associated event within a calendar application in response to user commands received via an event UI functionality provided by the calendar application, to connect with any of the food services via corresponding APIs in response to user commands received via the event UI functionality provided by the calendar application, to generate food service data for the food-associated event in response to user interaction(s) with any of the food services via corresponding APIs provided within the context of the calendar application, and to reconcile the food service data with food-associated event data corresponding to the food-associated event within the calendar application.

Food service management for food-associated events from calendar application

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