Generating recommendations for media assets to be displayed with related text content

A system comprising:

• a repository containing media assets,
• a memory, and
• a processor for executing instructions stored in a computer-readable medium, wherein when executed by the processor, the instructions perform operations comprising:
• receiving a set of sentences and a threshold number of sentences in the set to be accompanied by a media asset;
• determining, for each sentence in the set of sentences, a respective rank, wherein determining the respective rank is determined based on at least two of:
• a phrase having a threshold importance to semantic content of the sentence,
• a picturability of the sentence indicating a degree to which information in the sentence can be represented by a particular media asset,
• a sentiment score for the sentence, or
• a readability rating for the sentence, and
• ranking the sentences within the set based on the determined ranks for the sentences;
• selecting a first sub-set of the sentences having a rank above the received threshold number of sentences;
• selecting a first ranked sentence in the set of sentences, the first sentence having a ranking below the threshold number;
• selecting a second ranked sentence in the first sub-set of the sentences, the second sentence having a ranking above the threshold number;
• selecting a third ranked sentence in the first sub-set of the sentences, the third sentence having a ranking above the threshold number;
• determining a first degree of overlap between the first sentence and the second sentence, wherein the first degree of overlap is determined based on a first cosine similarity between a first vector space representation associated with the first sentence and a second vector space representation associated with the second sentence;
• determining a second degree of overlap between the first sentence and the third sentence, wherein the second degree of overlap is determined based on a second cosine similarity between the first vector space representation and a second vector space representation associated with the third sentence;
• and
• responsive to determining that the first degree of overlap is less than the second degree of overlap, performing a subsequent ranking operation on the ranked sentences, wherein the first ranked sentence is subsequently ranked above the second ranked sentence;
• selecting a second sub-set of the sentences based upon the subsequent ranking operation;
• and
• selecting, from the repository and based on the second sub-set of the sentences, one or more of the media assets for inclusion in a web page or other electronic content.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which is encoded program code for creating multimedia content comprising both media assets and text describing the media assets, the program code comprising:

• program code for receiving, by a processing device, a set of sentences and a threshold number of sentences in the set to be accompanied by a media asset;
• program code for determining, by the processing device and for each sentence in the set, a respective rank based on a combination of features;
• program code for ranking the sentences within the set based on the determined ranks for the sentences;
• program code for selecting a first ranked sentence having a ranking below the threshold number, a second ranked sentence having a ranking above the threshold number, and a third ranked sentence having a ranking above the threshold number;
• program code for determining a first degree of overlap between the first sentence and the second sentence, wherein the first degree of overlap is determined based on a first cosine similarity between a first vector space representation associated with the first sentence and a second vector space representation associated with the second sentence;
• program code for determining a second degree of overlap between the first sentence and the third sentence, wherein the second degree of overlap is determined based on a second cosine similarity between the first vector space representation and a third vector space representation associated with the third sentence;
• and
• program code for, responsive to determining that the first degree of overlap is less than the second degree of overlap, performing a subsequent ranking operation on the ranked sentences, wherein the first ranked sentence is subsequently ranked above the second ranked sentence;
• program code for selecting, by the processing device, a sub-set of the sentences based upon the subsequent ranking operation;
• and
• program code for generating, by the processing device, content comprising each respective sentence in the sub-set of sentences co-located with a respective media asset associated with the respective sentence.