Automatically annotating content items with an entity

摘要

Methods and systems for providing content for display including receiving a first content item, receiving a second content item, automatically annotating the first content item and the second content item with an entity, comparing the entity annotation of the first content item and the entity annotation of the second content item, and, based on the comparison, displaying the annotated first content item with the second content item to a user.

主权项

1. A method of providing content for display, comprising:
receiving, at one or more of a plurality of servers, a first plurality of content items including a first content item, and a second plurality of content items including a second content item, the second content item comprising a review, a comment, or a social-network share; annotating, by any of the plurality of servers, the first content item with one or more entity annotations descriptive of one or more entities of the first content item based on a mapping of phrases in the first content item to pre-defined entities, wherein each of the one or more entities of the first content item is a respective place or respective thing represented in the first content item; selecting the first content item from the first plurality of content items for display at a client device; annotating, by any of the plurality of servers, the second content item with one or more entity annotations descriptive of entities of the second content item; comparing the one or more entity annotations of the selected first content item to the respective one or more entity annotations of two or more of the second plurality of content items including the one or more entity annotations of the second content item; selecting, based on the comparison, the second content item based on the one or more entity annotations of the second content item matching the entity annotation of the first content item; generating a content section comprising the first content item along with the second content item; and providing, based on the selection of the second content item, the content section to the client device for aggregate display of the first content item and the second content item.