Google Inc.

Shaohua Sun

Aranyak Mehta

John Blitzer

Evgeniy Gabrilovich

Qian Zhong

Dekang Lin

Rahul Gupta

Gagan Aggarwal

Patrick Hummel

Kshipra Uday Bhawalkar

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium. In some implementations, methods include determining multiple different configurations of multiple digital components eligible to be presented within a single digital component slot in a given electronic document being presented at a client device, selecting a particular configuration that has a highest configuration score and includes a given digital component, determining an offset factor that quantifies a negative impact of the given digital component on other digital components, optimizing a distribution amount applied to the given digital component based on the offset factor and a baseline distribution amount applied to each digital component in each of the multiple different configurations, and transmitting the given digital component to the client device based on the distribution amount for the given digital component, including causing the given digital component to be presented at the client device in the particular configuration.

Optimized digital component analysis system

Methods and systems are provided for a question answering. In some implementations, a data element to be updated is identified in a knowledge graph and a query is generated based at least in part on the data element. The query is provided to a query processing engine. Information is received from the query processing engine in response to the query. The knowledge graph is updated based at least in part on the received information.

Question answering to populate knowledge base

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Shaohua Sun