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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Aman Grover, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dhruv Arya, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ganesh Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Kimberly McManus, San Francisco, CA (US);
Liang Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for expanding a job search that includes an industry by adding other similar industries. A method accesses, by a social networking server, a plurality of job applications, with each job application being submitted by a member for a job in a company, the member and the job having a respective industry from a plurality of industries. Semantic analysis of the job applications is performed by a machine-learning program to identify similarity coefficients among the plurality of industries. A job search query is received from a first member, the job search query including a query industry, and the job search query is expanded with industries that are similar to the query industry. The social networking server executes the expanded job search query to generate a plurality of job results. Presentation is provided on a display of one or more of the top job results.