Method and system to determine a member profile associated with a reference in a publication

摘要

Method and system are provided to determine a member profile associated with a reference to a person in a publication and may be used beneficially to identify members of a social network in news articles. The system may be configured to detect a publication that was shared by a member of an on-line social networking system, determine that the publication includes a name entity, and identify a member profile in the on-line social networking system that represents a member referenced by the name entity. The process of identifying a member profile in the on-line social networking system that represents a member referenced by the name entity may include building a list of candidate profiles from the member profiles of the on-line social networking system and selecting a matching profile from the candidate profiles, utilizing one or more disambiguation techniques.

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1. A method comprising:
detecting a publication that was shared by a member of an on-line social networking system; determining that the publication includes a name entity, the name entity comprising a string of characters; selecting one or more candidate profiles from a plurality of member profiles in the on-line social networking system, based on the name entity; selecting a matching profile from the candidate profiles, utilizing one or more disambiguation techniques, the one or more disambiguation techniques comprising utilizing data from a candidate profile from the one or more candidate profiles; identifying, using at least one processor, the matching profile from the candidate profiles as a member profile in the on-line social networking system that represents a member referenced by the name entity; and delivering a notification of the publication to members represented by the respective one or more profiles of connections of the candidate profile.