US 10,382,367 B2Granted

Commentary generation

AssigneeOath Inc.

InventorsAasish Kumar Pappu, Joel Ranjan Tetreault

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Abstract

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for commentary generation are provided. For example, a conversation, occurring through a conversation interface associated with a content item, is monitored to identify a tone of the conversation (e.g., users discussing a news article). If the tone deviates from a target tone (e.g., a negative tone of inflammatory comments, a low participation tone, an off topic tone, etc.), then intervention is automatically and programmatically performed for the conversation. For example, subject matter of the content item, information from external sources (e.g., other articles, social network posts, or website content associated with a topic of the news article), and/or programmatically generated information (e.g., topical statements generated by a neural network) are used to construct a comment. The comment is posted to the conversation interface in order to improve the conversation, such as to increase positive engagement by users.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computing device comprising:

a processor;
and
memory comprising processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
monitoring and evaluating a conversation occurring through a conversation interface associated with a content item to identify a tone of the conversation based upon comments submitted by users through the conversation interface;
and
responsive to determining that the tone deviates from a target tone based upon at least one of a lack of comments or a threshold number of comments having at least one of inflammatory words or off topic statements:
identifying a subject matter of the content item for which the conversation is associated;
querying a content source to identify target content corresponding to the subject matter;
determining a plurality of snippets from the target content;
assigning weights to the plurality of snippets based upon selection criteria, wherein the assigning weights comprises at least one of:
assigning weights based upon uniqueness selection criteria, wherein the assigning weights based upon the uniqueness selection criteria comprises:
assigning a first weight to a first snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the first snippet comprises one or more words matching one or more words of one or more comments within the conversation;
and
assigning a second weight to a second snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the second snippet does not comprise one or more words matching one or more words of one or more comments within the conversation;
or
assigning weights based upon contextual selection criteria, wherein the assigning weights based upon the contextual selection criteria comprises:
assigning a third weight to a third snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the third snippet comprises at least one of one or more words or one or more topics that correlate to the content item;
and
assigning a fourth weight to a fourth snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the fourth snippet does not comprise at least one of one or more words or one or more topics that correlate to the content item;
selecting a snippet from the plurality of snippets;
generating a context vector based upon the subject matter;
generating a natural language statement based upon the snippet and the context vector;
and
posting the natural language statement as a comment through the conversation interface using at least one of a predefined name, a randomly generated name, or a determined name.

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A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions that when executed cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:

monitoring and evaluating a conversation occurring through a conversation interface associated with a content item to identify a tone of the conversation based upon comments submitted by users through the conversation interface;
and
responsive to determining that the tone deviates from a target tone based upon at least one of a lack of comments or a threshold number of comments having at least one of inflammatory words or off topic statements:
identifying a subject matter of the content item for which the conversation is associated;
querying a content source to identify target content corresponding to the subject matter;
determining a plurality of snippets from the target content;
assigning weights to the plurality of snippets based upon selection criteria, wherein the assigning weights comprises at least one of:
assigning weights based upon uniqueness selection criteria, wherein the assigning weights based upon the uniqueness selection criteria comprises:
assigning a first weight to a first snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the first snippet comprises one or more words matching one or more words of one or more comments within the conversation;
and
assigning a second weight to a second snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the second snippet does not comprise one or more words matching one or more words of one or more comments within the conversation;
or
assigning weights based upon contextual selection criteria, wherein the assigning weights based upon the contextual selection criteria comprises:
assigning a third weight to a third snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the third snippet comprises at least one of one or more words or one or more topics that correlate to the content item;
and
assigning a fourth weight to a fourth snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the fourth snippet does not comprise at least one of one or more words or one or more topics that correlate to the content item;
selecting a snippet from the plurality of snippets;
generating a context vector based upon the subject matter;
generating a natural language statement based upon the snippet and the context vector;
and
posting the natural language statement as a comment through the conversation interface using at least one of a predefined name, a randomly generated name, or a determined name.

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A method, comprising:

monitoring and evaluating a conversation occurring through a conversation interface associated with a content item to identify a tone of the conversation based upon comments submitted by users through the conversation interface;
and
responsive to determining that the tone deviates from a target tone based upon at least one of a lack of comments or a threshold number of comments having at least one of inflammatory words or off topic statements:
identifying a subject matter of the content item for which the conversation is associated;
querying a content source to identify target content corresponding to the subject matter;
determining a plurality of snippets from the target content;
assigning weights to the plurality of snippets based upon selection criteria, wherein the assigning weights comprises at least one of:
assigning weights based upon uniqueness selection criteria, wherein the assigning weights based upon the uniqueness selection criteria comprises:
assigning a first weight to a first snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the first snippet comprises one or more words matching one or more words of one or more comments within the conversation;
and
assigning a second weight to a second snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the second snippet does not comprise one or more words matching one or more words of one or more comments within the conversation;
or
assigning weights based upon contextual selection criteria, wherein the assigning weights based upon the contextual selection criteria comprises:
assigning a third weight to a third snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the third snippet comprises at least one of one or more words or one or more topics that correlate to the content item;
and
assigning a fourth weight to a fourth snippet, of the plurality of snippets, based upon a determination that the fourth snippet does not comprise at least one of one or more words or one or more topics that correlate to the content item;
selecting a snippet from the plurality of snippets;
generating a context vector based upon the subject matter;
generating a natural language statement based upon the snippet and the context vector;
and
posting the natural language statement as a comment through the conversation interface using at least one of a predefined name, a randomly generated name, or a determined name.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/359,994Filed 23 Nov 2016
Published: US 2018/0145934 A124 May 2018
Granted: 13 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04L 51/02
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: using…
G06F 40/35
Semantic analysis: discourse or dialogue representation
G06F 40/56
Rule-based translation: natural language generation
H04L 12/1813
For broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast: for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms