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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2009
Nilesh Dalvi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
BO Pang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Tomkins, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nilesh Dalvi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bo Pang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Tomkins, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided to associate reviews that have unknown correspondences to tangible entities to structured objects that have known correspondences to tangible entities comprising: transforming a respective review and text from a respective structured object to a collection of words that intersect the respective review and text from the respective structured object; determining a measure of a likelihood of a match as a function of respective probabilities of occurrences of respective words of such intersecting collection within generic review text and respective probabilities of occurrences of respective words of such intersecting collection within structured object text.