CPC G06F 16/9535 (2019.01) [G06F 16/9024 (2019.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A computer-implemented process for identifying social connections among entities, comprising:
using a computing device for:
ranking social connections among entities' names in identified information blocks extracted from publicly available Web pages by (1) measuring a distance between pairs of entities' names in surrounding text of the identified information blocks, (2) using a context measure of a relationship between the pairs of entities' names, wherein the context measure of the relationship is based on a relationship keyword that exists in an identified information block and defines a relationship between the names of the two entities in the identified information block, and (3) using a function comprising a product of the distance and the context measure;
integrating the ranked social connections from all the information blocks to determine strengths of the connections between the entities associated with the entities' names; and
outputting a social networking graph based on the strengths of the connections between the entities associated with the entities' names.
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