News Results through Query Expansion

摘要

Systems and methods for providing improved news results to a news query according to entity expansion are presented. In response to receiving a news query from a computer user, a news engine identifies one or more interest entities of the computer user. Expanded entity data corresponding to the one or more interest entities is obtained, the expanded entity data identifying related entities to the one or more interest entities. The expanded entity data also includes category data corresponding to the categories of the one or more interest entities. Expanded news queries are generated according to the interest entities, the related entities, and category entities corresponding to the categories. News results are obtained according to the expanded news queries and a news presentation is generated and returned to the computer user.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method for providing news to a computer user in response to receiving a news query from the computer user, the method comprising:
identifying an interest entity of the computer user; obtaining expanded entity data corresponding to the interest entity from a related entity source, the expanded entity data comprising related entity data identifying a plurality of related entities that are related to the interest entity; generating an expanded news query for news content according to the interest entity and the expanded entity data; obtaining a plurality of references to news content according to the news query and the expanded news query; generating a news presentation according to the obtained references to news content; and providing the news presentation to the computer user.