Targeted Mentions for User Correlation to a Search Term
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsAnand Kumar Joshi, William James Bliss
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Abstract
Techniques for targeted mentions for user correlation to a search term are described. According to various implementations, users interact over a network-based service to engage in conversations (e.g., text, voice, video, and so forth), exchange content, collaborate on projects, and so forth. In the course of these interactions, users that author content and/or interact with content can discuss certain subject matter and can tag (“targeted mention”) certain users as being knowledgeable in the subject matter. The targeted mention is then discoverable during a search process to surface a correlation between a particular user and the particular subject matter.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, responsive to execution by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations including:
- receiving a search query that includes a trigger phrase and a search term;
- searching content, based on the trigger phrase, for targeted mentions of users, the targeted mentions corresponding to users that are linked to a search tag and correlated with the search term, the search tag being different than the search term;
- identifying within the content a set of users with targeted mentions correlated with the search term;
- ranking the set of users based on respective correlation scores for the users, the correlation scores based at least in part on a number of targeted mentions for individual users of the set of users;
- and
- outputting, based on said ranking, a ranked set of users that are correlated with the search term.
A method comprising:
- searching content, by a computing device, for targeted mentions of users, the targeted mentions corresponding to users that are linked to a search tag and correlated with a search term, the search tag being different than the search term;
- ranking a set of users based on respective correlation scores for the users, the correlation scores based at least in part on a number of targeted mentions for individual users of the set of users;
- and
- outputting, based on said ranking, a ranked set of users that are correlated with the search term.
A method comprising:
- searching content, by a computing device, for targeted mentions of users, the targeted mentions corresponding to users that are linked to a search tag and correlated with a search term, the search tag being different than the search term;
- identifying within the content a set of users with targeted mentions correlated with the search term;
- calculating, by the computing device, a correlation score for each user of the set of users, said calculating being based at least in part on a number of targeted mentions for each user of the set of users;
- ranking the set of users based on respective correlation scores for each user;
- and
- outputting, based on said ranking, a ranked set of users that are correlated with the search term.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.