Trending Topic Identification From Social Communications
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for identifying trending topics on social networking services, the method comprising:
- obtaining a plurality of social communications posted on one or more social networking services;
extracting a link to content from at least one of the plurality of social communications;
determining a set of potential topic descriptors for the linked content;
selecting a topic descriptor from the set of potential topic descriptors; and
storing the selected topic descriptor as a trending topic.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for identifying trending topics from social communications are presented. Social communications from one or more social networking sites are obtained. Links within the social communications are extracted. In various embodiments, the extracted links are filtered such that the linked content corresponding to the extracted links that can be categorized as news are retained. Topic descriptors for the retained links are generated and the topic descriptors are stored in a trending topic data store as trending topics. According to various embodiments, the topic descriptors are stored in the trending topic data store with the extracted links.
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1. A computer-implemented method for identifying trending topics on social networking services, the method comprising:
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obtaining a plurality of social communications posted on one or more social networking services; extracting a link to content from at least one of the plurality of social communications; determining a set of potential topic descriptors for the linked content; selecting a topic descriptor from the set of potential topic descriptors; and storing the selected topic descriptor as a trending topic. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer-readable medium bearing computer-executable instructions which, when executed on a computing system comprising at least a processor executing instructions retrieved from the medium, carry out a method for identifying trending topics on social networking services, the method comprising:
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obtaining a plurality of social communications posted on one or more social networking services; extracting a plurality of links to content from the plurality of social communications, wherein each of the plurality of links is a link to different content; and for each of the plurality of links to content; categorizing the linked content according to news or non-news; determining a set of potential topic descriptors for the linked content categorized as news; selecting a topic descriptor from the set of potential topic descriptors; and storing the selected topic descriptor as a trending topic. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer system for identifying trending topics on social networking sites, the system comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the processor executes instructions stored in the memory as part of or in conjunction with additional components to identify trending topics on social networking services, the additional components comprising:
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a social communication retrieval component to obtain social communications from one or more social networking sites; a link extraction component configured to extract a plurality of links to content from the social communications, each of the plurality of links corresponding to a distinct item of content; a news evaluation component configure to filter the plurality of links to content according to whether or not the linked content can be categorized as news, retaining those links to content that can be categorized as news; and a topic descriptor generator that, for each link to content that can be categorized as news, generates a topic descriptor for each of the items of content and stores the generated topic descriptor with the corresponding link in a trending topic data store as a trending topic. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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