Facebook Patents Slang Dictionary

June 22, 2016 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Facebook Patents Slang Dictionary

Facebook recently received a patent that is getting a little attention. It is a piece of software that scans the social media site for emerging terms and stores them in a “social glossary.” TECHSPOT brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Facebook patents new software that creates a slang dictionary.”

Urban Dictionary step aside. The patented system will discover new textual terms by searching for neologisms – a relatively new term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of becoming more commonly used, but hasn’t yet been widely adopted.

It is still unclear what Facebook plans to use the system for, but there are possibilities. It could be used to improve its predictive text feature, which struggles with recognizing slang words. Only time will tell for sure.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.