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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2014
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Maxime Boucher, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xiao Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander Perelygin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Veselin S. Stoyanov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Russell Lee-Goldman, Oakland, CA (US);
Necip Fazil Ayan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a client system of a first user an unstructured text query. The method includes parsing the text query to identify one or more n-grams. At least one of the n-grams is an ambiguous n-gram. The method includes searching a plurality of keyword generators to identify one or more keyword suggestions matching the ambiguous n-gram. The method further includes calculating a keyword score for each identified keyword suggestions and generating one or more suggested queries including one or more n-grams identified from the text query. The one or more identified keyword suggestions having a keyword score greater than a threshold keyword score. The method includes sending one or more of the suggested queries to the client system of the first user for display.