Made in NY: The engineering behind social recommendations

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This post introduces the 'Recommendations' feature, which automatically identifies and structures place recommendations from free-text comments on Facebook posts. It details the engineering challenges and solutions for extracting place entities from natural language, resolving ambiguity, and dynamically updating feed stories on both Android and iOS. The post highlights the integration with local search, places data graphs, and the Applied Machine Learning team's conversational understanding capabilities, as well as the use of ComponentKit and state management for dynamic UI updates.