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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2014
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kunal Punera, San Francisco, CA (US);
Deepayan Chakrabarti, Berkeley, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for receiving training data that comprise a plurality of event-and-time-specific texts that are contextually related to a plurality of events; iteratively processing the training data to generate a modified network model that defines a plurality of states; receiving additional data that comprise a plurality of additional event-and-time-specific texts that are contextually related to a particular event; processing the additional data by applying the modified network model to the additional data to identify, within the plurality of additional event-and-time specific texts, a particular set of texts that belong to a particular state of the plurality of states; identifying, within the particular set of texts, one or more texts that are most representative of all texts in the particular set of texts that belong to the particular state; wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices.