Personalized profile-modified search for dialog concepts

A method comprising:

• determining, by a processor, dialog keywords of a dialog of a plurality of users, as a search query, the dialog keywords representing key concepts of the dialog;
• modifying, by the processor, the search query based on personalized profiles of the users generated from at least a contextual information source regarding the users other than prior search queries made by the users by:
• obtaining a plurality of contextual keywords from the personalized profiles of the users;
• determining a current context of each user of the plurality of users based on at least a current time, a current day, and a current location of each user;
• selecting a current persona from a plurality of personas within the personalized profiles of each user of the plurality of users, based on the determined current context of each user, wherein each persona corresponding to different types of contextual information regarding the user;
• selecting contextual keywords of the current persona within the personalized profile of the user, and appending the selected contextual keywords to the search query to generate the modified search query;
• performing, by the processor, a search of an information store using the modified search query to retrieve relevant search results;
• and providing, by the processor, the relevant search results to each user.

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and a storage device storing:
• a plurality of personalized profiles corresponding to and for a plurality of participants, each personalized profile including a plurality of contextual keywords for a corresponding participant and generated from at least a contextual information source other than previously made searches;
• and computer-executable code, wherein the processor is to execute the computer-executable code to:
• generate a base search query as dialog keywords of a dialog in which the participants are contributing, the dialog keywords representing concepts of the dialog;
• for each participant, generate a personal search query for the participant as the base search query to which the contextual keywords of the personalized profile of the participant are added by:
• determining a current context of each participant of the plurality of participants based on at least a current time, a current day, and a current location of each participant;
• selecting a current persona from a plurality of personas within the personalized profiles of each participant of the plurality of participants, based on the determined current context of each participant, wherein each persona corresponds to different types of contextual information regarding the participant;
• selecting the contextual keyword of the current persona within the personalized profile of the participant, and appending the selected contextual keywords to the personal search query;
• and generate an overall search query for the participants as a whole as the base search query to which the contextual keywords of the personalized profile of each participant are added.