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Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yofay Kari Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Michael Benjamin Cohen, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Maxime Boucher, Mountain View, CA (US);

Alisson Gusatti Azzolini, San Francisco, CA (US);

Xiao Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kathryn Hymes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Amy Campbell, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3097 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/3087 (2013.01); G06F 17/30604 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30958 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving an unstructured text query, identifying nodes and edges that correspond to n-grams of the text query, accessing a context-free grammar model, identifying grammars having query tokens that correspond to the identified nodes and edges, determining a score for each identified grammar, and then generating structured queries based on the identified grammars based on strings generated by the grammars.


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