Automatic hierarchy based classification

• US 20020040363A1
• Filed: 06/14/2001
• Published: 04/04/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ehud Rivlin, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Eytan Ruppin, Gadi Wolfman, Lev Finkelstein, Solan Tsach, Yossef Matias
• Original Assignee: Ehud Rivlin, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Eytan Ruppin, Gadi Wolfman, Lev Finkelstein, Solan Tsach, Yossef Matias
• Inventors: Tsach, Solan, Gabrilovich, Evgeniy, Finkelstein, Lev, Rivlin, Ehud, Wolfman, Gadi, Ruppin, Eytan, Matias, Yossef
• Application Number:
  US09/879,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20020040363A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/353 into predefined classes

Abstract

A method and system for classification, including the steps of searching a data structure including categories for elements related to an input, calculating statistics describing the relevance of each of the elements to the input, ranking the elements by relevance to the input, determining if the ranked elements exceed a threshold confidence value, and returning a set of elements from the ranked elements when the threshold confidence value is exceeded.

Claims

1. A method for classification comprising the steps of:

searching a data structure comprising categories for elements related to an input;

calculating statistics describing the relevance of each of said elements to said input;

ranking said elements by relevance to said input;

determining if said ranked elements exceed a threshold confidence value; and

returning a set of elements from said ranked elements when said threshold confidence value is exceeded.