Facebook, Inc.

Daniel Cabral Francisco

Melissa Rose Winstanley

Eric Ringger

David M Goldblatt

Brinda Mehta

Krishna Jayaram Kalpathy

Evan John Rocha

Prerna Totla

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query from a client system of a first user; parsing the search query into n-grams, and calculating confidence-scores for entities in a set of query-analysis-entities based on the n-grams, each confidence-score representing a probability that one or more of the n-grams are intended to reference a respective entity; determining a set of search results matching the search query, and calculating entity-frequencies corresponding to entities in a set of results-analysis-entities based on a histogram analysis of the set of search results; calculating a filter-score entities in a set of prospective-entities, which includes entities from the set of query-analysis-entities and the set of results-analysis-entities, based on the respective confidence-score and entity-frequency; and sending, to the client system, suggested filters corresponding to entities having a filter-score greater than a threshold filter-score, the suggested filters being selectable to modify the set of search results.

Suggesting filters for search on online social networks

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Daniel Cabral Francisco