Method and apparatus for assigning a confidence level to a term within a user knowledge profile
First Claim
1. A method of assigning a confidence level to a term within an electronic document, the method including the steps of:
- determining a first quantitative indicator based on a number of occurrences of the term within the electronic document;
determining a characteristic indicator based on a characteristic of the term; and
assigning a second indicator to the term, the second indicator being derived from the first quantitative indicator and the characteristic indicator.
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Abstract
A method of assigning a confidence level to a term within an electronic document, such as an e-mail, includes the step of firstly determining a quantitative indicator in the exemplary form of an occurrence value, based on the number of occurrences of a particular term within an electronic document, and associating the occurrence term within the relevant term. Thereafter, a qualitative indicator, based on a quality of the term, is determined. For example, the qualitative indicator may be determined utilizing the parts of speech of words comprising the term. A confidence level value, which may be utilized to indicate a relative importance of the term in describing a user knowledge base, is then generated utilizing the quantitative and qualitative indicators.
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37 Claims
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1. A method of assigning a confidence level to a term within an electronic document, the method including the steps of:
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determining a first quantitative indicator based on a number of occurrences of the term within the electronic document;
determining a characteristic indicator based on a characteristic of the term; and
assigning a second indicator to the term, the second indicator being derived from the first quantitative indicator and the characteristic indicator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. Apparatus for assigning a confidence level to a term within an electronic document, the apparatus comprising:
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a term extractor to extract the term from the electronic document; and
confidence logic to determine a first quantitative indicator based on a number of occurrences of the term within the electronic document;
to determine a qualitative indicator based on a quality of the term; and
assign a second indicator, derived from the first quantitative indicator and the qualitative indicator, to the term. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. Apparatus for assigning a confidence level to a term within an electronic document, the apparatus comprising:
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term extraction means for extracting a term from the electronic document; and
confidence means for determining a first quantitative indicator based on the number of occurrences of the term within the electronic document;
for determining a characteristic indicator based on a characteristic of the term;
and for assigning a second indicator, derived from the first quantitative indicator and the characteristic indicator, to the term.
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37. A machine-readable medium storing a sequence of instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform the steps of:
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determining a first quantitative indicator based on a number of occurrences of a term within an electronic document;
determining a qualitative indicator based on a quality of the term; and
assigning a composite indicator to the term, the composite indicator being derived from the first quantitative indicator and the qualitative indicator.
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