Patent ID: 8600979
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: extracting a set of constituent entities from an article; selecting a set of primary entities, each primary entity in the set of primary entities originating from the set of constituent entities; based on the set of primary entities, selecting a set of related entities; wherein selecting the set of related entities comprises: for each primary entity in the set of primary entities, searching for co-occurring related entities that co-occur with the primary entity in entries within: a repository of one or more search query logs; wherein selecting the set of related entities further comprises: for each primary entity in the set of primary entities, selecting one or more related entities based at least on said searching and a ranking process based on co-occurrence frequencies; forming a set of candidate entities that includes both primary entities from the set of primary entities and related entities from the set of related entities; ranking the set of candidate entities, wherein the ranking includes determining a rank of each primary entity in the set of candidate entities relative to both the primary entities and the related entities in the set of candidate entities, and determining a rank of each related entity in the set of candidate entities relative to both the primary entities and the related entities in the set of candidate entities; selecting a final set of entities from the set of candidate entities based on the ranking of the set of candidate entities, wherein the final set of entities is smaller than the candidate set of entities; generating a supplement, to the article, comprising search results for each entity in the final set of entities; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.