INFERRING TOPICS FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS USING SOCIAL CONTEXT

摘要

The social networking system determines the meaning of the anchor terms used in communications received from the communicating user. Candidate nodes are identified in a dictionary based on anchor terms, and each candidate node expresses possible meanings of anchor terms. The context of the anchor term is determined, and the score for each candidate node is determined based on the determined context. Based on the determined candidate node score, the candidate node having the greatest possibility of expressing the meaning of the anchor term is determined. The context of the anchor term may be a social context derived from users connected with the communicating user using anchor terms in the communication. The communicating user can be guided to explicitly identify the meaning of the anchor term based on the use of the term in communication from other users connected to the communicating user.