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Predicting interesting things and concepts in content

US10217058B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 30, 2014
Grant dateFeb 26, 2019
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Expiry dateDec 10, 2036

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06N20/00
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An “Engagement Predictor” provides various techniques for predicting whether things and concepts (i.e., “nuggets”) in content will be engaging or interesting to a user in arbitrary content being consumed by the user. More specifically, the Engagement Predictor provides a notion of interestingness, i.e., an interestingness score, of a nugget on a page that is grounded in observable behavior during content consumption. This interestingness score is determined by evaluating arbitrary documents using a learned transition model. Training of the transition model combines web browsing log data and latent semantic features in training data (i.e., source and destination documents) automatically derived by a Joint Topic Transition (JTT) Model. The interestingness scores are then used for highlighting one or more nuggets, inserting one or more hyperlinks relating to one or more nuggets, importing content relating to one or more nuggets, predicting user clicks, etc.

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