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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2021
Verizon Media Inc., New York, NY (US);
Fei Tan, Harrison, NJ (US);
Yifan Hu, Mountain Lakes, NJ (US);
Kevin Yen, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Changwei Hu, New Providence, NJ (US);
Ben Shahshahani, Menlo Park, CA (US);
YAHOO ASSETS LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The disclosed systems and methods provide a framework for a proactive prediction of the toxic propensity of an article. Prior to the publication and/or reception of comments to online content, the disclosed framework determines the toxic propensity of the content's context and/or specific words, sentences, sentiments, tone or other messages receivable from consumption of the content. Thus, disclosed framework performs proactive forecasting of the content's toxicity propensity', which quantifies how likely the content is prone to incur or attract toxic comments. The framework can function and/or be configured to operate in a manner that can perform specifically adherent moderation actions that correspond to the content and control how the content can be interacted with, based on the toxic propensity determination, prior to the content's publication in an effort to thwart, prevent or stop toxic environments surrounding or stemming from the content from coming into existence.