Knowledge discovery system
First Claim
1. A system for knowledge discovery from a set of structured data and/or semi-structured data and/or unstructured data elements comprising:
- a first filter for filtering a first representation level of the data elements;
a first level processor for transforming the filtered data elements into a second representation level of the data elements;
a second filter for filtering the second representation of the data elements; and
a feedback controller for automatically providing feedback to one of the filters and/or the processor and/or to the first representation level of data elements based on the filtered second representation level of the data elements
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Abstract
A knowledge discovery apparatus and method that extracts both specifically desired as well as pertinent and relevant information to query from a corpus of multiple elements that can be structured, unstructured, and/or semi-structured, along with imagery, video, speech, and other forms of data representation, to generate a set of outputs with a confidence metric applied to the match of the output against the query. The invented apparatus includes a multi-level architecture, along with one or more feedback loop(s) from any level n to any lower level n−1 so that a user can control the output of this knowledge discovery method via providing inputs to the utility function.
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45 Claims
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1. A system for knowledge discovery from a set of structured data and/or semi-structured data and/or unstructured data elements comprising:
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a first filter for filtering a first representation level of the data elements;
a first level processor for transforming the filtered data elements into a second representation level of the data elements;
a second filter for filtering the second representation of the data elements; and
a feedback controller for automatically providing feedback to one of the filters and/or the processor and/or to the first representation level of data elements based on the filtered second representation level of the data elements - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for knowledge discovery from a corpus of structured data and/or semi-structured data and/or unstructured data elements comprising:
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a first set of one or more filters applied to a first representation of the data elements, generating a subset of the first representation data elements, wherein the filters are configured to employ a first set of criteria to determine filter selection and filter parameters governing data element subset selection;
a first level processor configured to execute one or more processing methods for transforming the selected subset of the first representation of the data elements into a second representation level;
a second set of one or more filters applied to a second representation of the data elements, generating a subset of the second representation data elements, wherein the second set of filters are configured to employ a second set of criteria to determine filter selection and filter parameters governing data element subset selection;
a second level processor configured to execute one or more processing methods for transforming a subset of the second representation level of the data elements into a third representation having a higher abstraction than the first and second representation levels. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A system for knowledge discovery from a corpus of structured data and/or semi-structured data and/or unstructured data elements comprising:
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a first level processor for transforming a subset of a first representation of the data elements into a second representation;
a feedback controller for modifying the transformation process performed by the first level processor based on the contents of the second representation and a utility function. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A system for knowledge discovery from a corpus of structured data and/or semi-structured data and/or unstructured data elements comprising:
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a first level processor for transforming a subset of a first representation of the data elements from the corpus into a second representation having a higher abstraction than the first representation, wherein the first level processor is configured to map the second representation of the data elements in a many-to-many manner to a predetermined taxonomy containing nodes in a many-to-many manner;
a feedback controller including a reasoning component configured to monitor the second representation of data elements and to identify the population of the data in the second representation towards the taxonomy as defined by the various many-to-many mappings between the data elements in the second representation and the nodes in the predetermined taxonomy. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A system for knowledge discovery of structured data and/or semi-structured data and/or unstructured data comprising:
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wherein the data is represented in at least two different representation modalities; and
wherein a separate system for processing each representation modality exists; and
wherein each separate processing system includes a first level processor for transforming the data from a first representation level of data elements into a second representation level having a higher level of abstraction than the first representation level, andwherein the two processing systems share a common a feedback controller for automatically controlling each of the first level processors based on the contents of the respective second representation level;
wherein the feedback controller is configured to control one of the processing systems based on the data elements represented in the other of the processing systems. - View Dependent Claims (45)
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