How does "mentions" work ?
How do you think the "mentions" capability within the "company" section in the grapevine app work ?
It's not like someone is tagging a company like they can tag a user, right !!
Also, a substring match would not also work since the company name can be quite generic and then you could have irrelevant posts..
And keeping a human who is doing manual annotation also does not make sense because it's literally not scalable...
What do you think ?
Substring matches would result in a lot of irrelevant posts. One approach could use an entity recognition algorithm to identify and extract company names from posts. These NLP algorithms are trained on huge data to recognise companies, locations etc.
If you have ever written an entity recognition algorithm, then you would know that they themselves use substring matching
I am no expert on NLP. But algorithms trained on Entity recognition can differentiate between "WeWork is a nice place to start office" and "We work at Jupiter"
