y Keynote Presentation from today at SMXL Milan 2019 - Loving Italy about entities and augmentation queries and question answer through building knowledge graphs.
Bill SlawskiDirector of SEO Research at Go Fish Digital
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Our Future is An Internet of
Things
Things that may get smarter and
do away with a need for owner’s
manuals – which should be built
into devices, appliances and
vehicles.
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We May Find Answers About
them in Graphs of Things
I did find the right fluid, but
without my car’s help. The
internet of things hasn’t quite
reached all things yet. But the
internet is increasingly about
things.
5. Graphs of
Things on
my
computer
Google Related Questions now use a Question Graph
Generating related questions for search queries
US Patent: 9,679,027
Granted: June 13, 2017
Filed: December 14, 2015
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Recommendation: Entity
Oriented Search
This Book is available Open Access,
by Krisztian Balog, a professor of
computer science at the University
of Stavange, and a former intern at
Google. It is very detailed.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/
9783319939339
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Augmentation of Brand Queries
with Paid Results
Combining content with a
search result
Assignee: Google LLC
US Patent: 9,947,026
Granted: April 17, 2018
Filed: May 12, 2016
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Augmentation of Queries with
GMB Location Extensions
Determining Relevant
Business Locations Based
on Travel Distances
Assignee: Google LLC
US Patent Application:
20190180326
Published: June 13, 2019
Filed: February 19, 2019
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Augmentation of Queries with
Knowledge Graph Information
Providing search results
using augmented search
queries
Assignee: Google LLC
US Patent: 10,055,462
Granted: August 21, 2018
Filed: March 15, 2013
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New Universal
Search Results
Interface for a universal
search
Inventors: Bret S. Taylor,
Marissa Ann Mayer, Orkut
Buyukkokten
Assignee: Google LLC
US Patent: 10,409,865
Granted: September 10,
2019
Filed: April 15, 2016
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Recommendation: Paul Haahr in
How Google Works
How Google Works: A Google
Ranking Engineers Story -
https://youtu.be/iJPu4vHETXw
Talks about “Life of a Query” class at Google with “Query Understanding,” asking
About Named Entities in Queries
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Recommendation: -Jason
Barnard’s Interview of Gary Illyes
How Google Search Ranking Works – Darwinism in Search -
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-google-search-ranking-works/307591/
Gary Talks about what is taught in a class for new Google Search engineers, and
how queries work and pages are ranked. Again, Entities are one of the features
that is ranked
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Knowledge Panels for Things in
the Knowledge Graph
Can Enter Google’s Knowledge Graph by GMB
Verification
https://support.google.com/business/answer/71072
42?hl=en
or by meeting Notability requirements of Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
Create a Wikidata Entry for your entity
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute
Use Schema Markup on your Website
https://schema.org/
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Knowledge Graph is Powered by
Knowledge Bases
Wikipedia
IMDB
Wikidata
Freebase
Recommended Reading: From Freebase to
Wikidata: The Great Migration -
https://static.googleusercontent.com/medi
a/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/4
4818.pdf
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A Knowledge Graph is Made of
Triples
Subject/Verb/Object
Planet of the Apes Rated G
Planet of the Apes Released 1968
Planet of the Apes Directed by
Schaffner
Planet of the Apes has actor Roddy
McDowall
Planet of the Apes has actor Charlton
Heston
Planet of the Apes has actor Kim
Hunter
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Triples can come from Tables
Knowledge Bases Often Contain
Facts about Properties of Entities
In table form
Learning objects and facts from
documents
Invented by Shubin Zhao
Assigned to Google
US Patent 8,812,435
Granted August 19, 2014
Filed November 16, 2007
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Google Extracts Entities and
Facts
Computerized systems and
methods for extracting and
storing information regarding
entities
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
US Patent: 10,198,491
Granted: February 5, 2019
Filed: July 6, 2015
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Association Scores Have Different
WeightsAssociation scores for
each occurrence of an
entity or context.
temporal weights
(recent documents or
occurrences)
reliability weights (more
reliable sources, more
heavily)
popularity weights
(more popular sources,
more heavily)
proximity weights
(entities/contexts
occurring in closer
proximity to one
another on a page,
more heavily)
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Entity Relationship Scores
1. Visit Q&A sites (like Quora, Yahoo
Answers)
2. Identify Entity in Question Using NLP
3. Identify Candidate Entities in Answer Using NLP
4. Identify Relationship type from the question
5. Score the relationship of Question and Answer
Entities by things such as how frequently the Answer
appears for that question
“WHO/pronoun IS/verb BARACK OBAMA/noun
MARRIED/adjective TO/verb?”
MICHELLE OBAMA/noun.”
28. Recommended Reading
• Natural Language Processing is Fun! -
https://medium.com/@ageitgey/natural-
language-processing-is-fun-9a0bff37854e
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Question-Answering by Building
Knowledge Graphs
Natural Language Processing With
An N-Gram Machine
Pub. No.: WO2019083519A1
Publication Date: May 2, 2019
International Filing Date: October
25, 2017
Inventors: Ni Lao, Jiazhong Nie, Fan
Yang