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US 2013/0173611 A1Published application
Generation of nickname dictionary
OwnerGideon Wald, Wenjie Fu +2inventors
InventorsGideon Wald, Wenjie Fu, Yanxin Shi, Hong Yan
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses and systems for generating a name-word dictionary that includes associations between names of users and candidate words (e.g., nicknames) based on statistical analysis of user communications observed at a network communications facility, such as a social network system, an email provider and the like.
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A method comprising:
- accessing, by one or more computing devices, one or more messages, each message being directed to a target user and comprising one or more words, each target user being associated with one or more names;
- identifying, by the one or more computing devices, one or more name-word associations between at least one name associated with at least one of the target users and one or more words identified in the messages, the identifying being based on statistics comprising a number of occurrences of a candidate word in messages directed to target users sharing a same name;
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- determining, by the one or more computing devices, a confidence score for each of the one or more name-word associations.
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One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:
- access, by one or more computing devices, one or more messages, each message being directed to a target user and comprising one or more words, each target user being associated with one or more names;
- identify, by the one or more computing devices, one or more name-word associations between at least one name associated with at least one of the target users and one or more words identified in the messages, the identifying being based on statistics comprising a number of occurrences of a candidate word in messages directed to target users sharing a same name;
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- determine, by the one or more computing devices, a confidence score for each of the one or more name-word associations.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
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- a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to:
- access one or more messages, each message being directed to a target user and comprising one or more words, each target user being associated with one or more names;
- identify one or more name-word associations between at least one name associated with at least one of the target users and one or more words identified in the messages, the identifying being based on statistics comprising a number of occurrences of a candidate word in messages directed to target users sharing a same name;
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- determine a confidence score for each of the one or more name-word associations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.