Groupon, Inc.

Shawn Ryan Jeffrey

Gaston L'Huillier

Francisco Jose Larrain

Dor Levi

David Alan Johnston

Amit Koren

Matthew DeLand

Hernan Enrique Arroyo Garcia

Daniel Langdon

Bhupesh Bansal

Feras Karablieh

Srinivasa Raghavan Vedanarayanan

Jonathan Esterhazy

Taylor Raack

Embodiments provide a computer-executable method, computer system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for programmatically processing text information to generate attribute descriptors contained therein. The method includes programmatically accessing, via a network device, a textual unit, the textual unit associated with a commercial entity or a commercial object. The method also includes executing a text processing engine to programmatically generate an attribute descriptor from the textual unit. The method further includes storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable storage device, the attribute descriptor in association with identification of the commercial entity or the commercial object.

System and method for programmatic generation of attribute descriptors

Systems, apparatus, and methods for determining unique contacts from a collection or pool of merchant data are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for an apparatus including circuitry configured to determine programmatic match results indicating whether different instances of merchant data match (e.g., describe the same contact). The circuitry may further determine probabilities of precision or recall errors with the programmatic match results. Programmatic match results having a high probability of error may be annotated by a user to generate user match results. The user match results may be used to generate a more reliable contacts database including unique contacts, as well as to train and/or update the match scoring algorithm. As such, the accuracy of machine-implemented binary classification is improved.

Systems, apparatus, and methods of programmatically determining unique contacts based on crowdsourced error correction

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Shawn Ryan Jeffrey