SELECTION AND RANKING OF COMMENTS FOR PRESENTATION TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS

摘要

When a social networking system receives a request from a requesting user for a content item associated with one or more comments, the social networking system determines an interest score for each comment. The interest score for a comment indicates a measure of the user's likelihood of being interested in the comment. Based on the calculated interest scores, the social networking system selects one or more comments for presentation to the viewing user along with the content item. The social networking system may specify an order in which the selected comments are presented based on the interest scores of the selected comments.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, from a client device of a requesting user of a social networking system, a request for a content item associated with one or more comments representing information provided by users of the social networking system; calculating an interest score for each of the comments associated with the content item, the interest score representing a measure of the requesting user's interest in a comment; selecting one or more comments for presentation to the requesting user based at least in part on the calculated interest scores; ranking the one or more selected comments based at least in part on the calculated interest scores associated with each of the one or more selected comments; and transmitting instructions to the client device to present the one or more selected comments in an order based at least in part on the ranking along with the associated content item.