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Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2016
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventor:

Veselin S. Stoyanov, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes identifying one or more entity candidates matching one or more n-grams in a character string, wherein each entity candidate corresponds to an entity associated with the online social network, each entity candidate being associated with one or more entity features and one or more type features, and wherein each entity candidate is of a particular entity type; calculating, for each entity candidate, a confidence score representing a likelihood that the entity candidate is intended to match the corresponding n-gram, wherein the confidence score is based on: an entity-score based on the one or more entity features and a type-score based on the one or more type features; and assigning an entity candidate to one or more of the n-grams based on the calculated confidence scores corresponding to the n-grams.


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