Google Inc.

Linkedin Corporation

Pi-Chuan Chang

Trystan G Upstill

John Blitzer

Hayden Shaw

Thomas Richard Strohmann

Robert B Avery

Daniel Ramage

Bing Zhao

Ada Yu

Tianhua Duan

Daniel Bikel

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

A system stores a table mapping users to attributes, and stores a second table mapping the users to products associated with a source domain. The system determines a set of top scoring products for each of the attributes, and creates, using the top scoring products, a model that is predictive of an activity in a target domain, the target domain being separate from the source domain. The system detects a behavior from a particular user accessing the target domain, and generates a personalized prediction for the particular user based on the model, in response to the detecting the behavior.

Tailoring user experience for unrecognized and new users

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying and scoring restricted-locality synonyms. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search query including a query term and a synonym for the query term. The synonym is evaluated using one or more predetermined criteria and based on the evaluation is designated as a restricted-locality synonym. A first scoring model is selected that specifies how to score occurrences of restricted-locality synonyms in documents. A document is received that is identified as being responsive to the search query. A document score for the document is determined using the first scoring model.

Restricted-locality synonyms

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