Airbnb, Inc.

Lu Cheng

Salih Abdul-Karim

Fabio Resende

Taido Nakajima

JingZhi Jian

Surabhi Gupta

Frank Lin

Chun How Tan

Mihajlo Grbovic

A system receives a query from a user specifying a geographic location at which the user wishes to obtain data relating to travel experiences. The system obtains a first score associated with a first travel experience and a second score associated with a second travel experience, the first score being different than the second. A score is based on at least one quality indicator of the experience. The system defines a plurality of differently-located virtual boundaries around the travel location, each successive boundary indicating an area located at a greater distance from the travel location. The system then displays to the user a list of experiences, wherein the experiences are rank-ordered before presentation to the user. The rank ordering of experiences is dependent on both the virtual boundary into which the experience falls and the score associated with the experience.

Multi-tier search and delivery of travel experiences

Listings and reviews of listings can be processed to identify descriptive attributes for locations associated with the listings. To do this, a corpus of words is generated for various locations based on listings in the locations and reviews of those listings. An expected frequency, and per-location frequency for each word is determined. These numbers are in turn used to determine a number of high frequency listing locations, and a number of below expected frequency listing locations for each word. Based on a comparison of the number of high frequency listing locations and the number of below expected frequency listing locations of a word with an attribute reference number, the word can be identified either as an attribute that is likely descriptive of the location, or not.

Determining descriptive attributes for listing locations

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Lu Cheng