Baker Botts L.L.P.
Keyword search queries on online social networks
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.
Facebook, Inc.
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Necip Fazil Xiao Veselin S. Alexander Maxime Russell
Ayan Li Stoyanov Perelygin Boucher Lee-Goldman