Patent ID: 8190541

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: under control of one or more computing systems configured to provide information about content items determined to be relevant for identified themes, receiving one or more indications of a first group of multiple content items whose contents are representative of a subject area of interest, and of a second group of multiple content items whose contents are related to the subject area of interest; automatically analyzing the multiple content items of the first group to identify multiple themes that correspond to the subject area of interest, and automatically assessing degrees of relevance of the multiple content items of the second group to a first of the identified themes; providing information to one or more users about at least some of the multiple content items of the second group that are identified as each having an assessed degree of relevance to the first identified theme that satisfies one or more indicated criteria, and receiving feedback from the one or more users that reflects a relevance assessed by the one or more users of the identified at least some content items to the first identified theme; automatically updating the assessed degree of relevance to the first identified theme of each of one or more of the at least some content items of the second group based at least in part on the received feedback; and providing information to one or more other users about at least one of the at least some content items of the second group based at least in part on the updated assessed degrees of relevance of the at least one content items.