Social search engine

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an answer to a question from an answerer; identifying an entity in the answer, in which the entity refers to a product, a service, a company, or a merchant; obtaining permission from the answerer to provide an interactive link for the entity in the answer to a resource from which the entity can be obtained; receiving a user submitted query and determining that the query is related to the entity; and responsive to determining, providing the answer, including the link to the resource, as part of search results that are responsive to the query.

Social search engine

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an answer to a question from an answerer; identifying an entity in the answer, in which the entity refers to a product, a service, a company, or a merchant; obtaining permission from the answerer to provide an interactive link for the entity in the answer to a resource from which the entity can be obtained; receiving a user submitted query and determining that the query is related to the entity; and responsive to determining, providing the answer, including the link to the resource, as part of search results that are responsive to the query.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CUSTOMIZING SUGGESTIONS USING USER-SPECIFIC INFORMATION

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to provide customized suggestions based on user-specific information. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors, obtaining impressions associated with at least one of the electronic device or additional electronic devices communicatively coupled to the electronic device; and determining one or more concepts based on the impressions. The method also includes generating, based on the one or more determined concepts, a representation of a collection of user-specific information; and providing one or more suggestions to a user based on the representation of the collection of user-specific information. 1. An electronic device , comprising:one or more processors;memory; andone or more programs stored in memory, the one or more programs including instructions for:obtaining impressions associated with at least one of the electronic device or additional electronic devices communicatively coupled to the electronic device;determining one or more concepts based on the impressions;generating, based on the one or more determined concepts, a representation of a collection of user-specific information; andproviding one or more suggestions to a user based on the representation of the collection of user-specific information.2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the impressions comprises:collecting data from one or more sources associated with at least one of the electronic device or the additional electronic devices communicatively coupled to the electronic device;determining whether the data collected from the one or more sources are associated with one or more user activities; andin accordance with a determination that the data collected from the one or more sources are associated with one or more user activities, including the data in the impressions.3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the impressions comprise one or more of: a plurality of ...

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING QUERY SUGGESTIONS

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to provide query suggestions are provided. In accordance with one or more examples, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory: while displaying an input document comprising unstructured natural language information, receiving a user input initiating a search. The method also include in response to receiving the user input, initiating a query based on the input document. The query accesses a repository of candidate query suggestions related to one or more topics present in the unstructured natural language information. The method further includes receiving, from the repository, one or more query suggestions; and providing the one or more query suggestions to the user. 1. An electronic device comprising:one or more processors;memory; andone or more programs stored in memory, the one or more programs including instructions for:while displaying an input document comprising unstructured natural language information, receiving a user input initiating a search;in response to receiving the user input, initiating a query based on the input document, the query accessing a repository of candidate query suggestions related to one or more topics present in the unstructured natural language information;receiving, from the repository, one or more query suggestions; andproviding the one or more query suggestions to the user.2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein initiating the query based on the input document comprises:generating one or more tokens representing the input document;removing, from the tokens representing the input document, tokens representing structured content in the input document;classifying the remaining tokens; andgenerating the query based on the classification of the remaining tokens.3. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein classifying the remaining tokens comprises classifying the remaining tokens into at least one of:one or more primary ...

Determining relevant information based on third party information and user interactions

A system for determining relevant information based on user interactions may include a processor configured to receive application data from one or more applications, the application data including features related to user activity from the one or more applications, the one or more application including applications local to the device that are stored in the memory and applications external to the device. The processor may be further configured to provide, using a machine learning (ML) model, a relevance score for each of one or more user interface (UI) elements based on each of the features. The processor may be further configured to sort one or more UI elements based on a ranking of the relevance scores. The processor may be further configured to provide, as output, the one or more UI elements based at least in part on the ranking.

Determining relevant information based on third party information and user interactions

A system for determining relevant information based on user interactions may include a processor configured to receive application data from one or more applications, the application data including features related to user activity from the one or more applications, the one or more application including applications local to the device that are stored in the memory and applications external to the device. The processor may be further configured to provide, using a machine learning (ML) model, a relevance score for each of one or more user interface (UI) elements based on each of the features. The processor may be further configured to sort one or more UI elements based on a ranking of the relevance scores. The processor may be further configured to provide, as output, the one or more UI elements based at least in part on the ranking.

Determining relevant information based on third party information and user interactions