Automatic strategic updates of a content catalog using content provider rankings and confidence scoring

Abstract

A method including providing a content catalog for items. The content catalog can include attributes for the items, values associated with the attributes, content provider identifiers of content providers that provided the values, and confidence scores for the values. The method also can include tracking source rankings for the content providers for item categories. The method additionally can include receiving a new value associated with an attribute of the attributes for an item of the items. The new value can be provided by a content provider of the content providers. The method further can include generating a priority score for the new value based on a set of input features associated with the new value and a set of score weightings associated with the set of input features. The set of input features can include (a) a source ranking of the source rankings for the content provider for an item category of the item categories associated with the item and (b) a confidence score for the new value. The method additionally can include overriding an existing value of the values in the content catalog associated with the attribute with the new value based on a comparison of the priority score for the new value exceeding a priority score for the existing value. Other embodiments are disclosed.