Method, apparatus and program storage device for processing semantic subjects that occur as terms within document content

• US 20060173821A1
• Filed: 01/31/2005
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hennum, Erik F., Priestley, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 7,689,910 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing

Abstract

A method, apparatus and program storage device for delimiting words is provided and requires adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation, and processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.

Claims

1. A program storage device, comprising:

program instructions executable by a processing device to perform operations for delimiting words, the operations comprising;

adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation; and

processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.

2. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein adding the extensible vocabulary markup to the plurality of markup languages comprises adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages through DITA specialization in DTD.

3. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein adding the extensible vocabulary markup to the plurality of markup languages comprises adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages through XML Schema or RelaxNG.

4. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the one or more vocabularies are included within a subject domain.

5. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the one or more vocabularies comprises one or more vocabularies defined using mapping.

6. The program storage device of claim 5, wherein the one or more vocabularies defined using mapping comprises one or more vocabularies defined using a map of RDF IDs.

7. The program storage device of claim 5, wherein the one or more vocabularies defined using mapping comprises one or more vocabularies defined using a fixed attribute for a semantic URI, wherein the semantic URI is associated with a fixed attribute for a vocabulary.

8. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein processing the provided term comprises processing a provided term based on a provided word associated with the term.

9. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein processing the provided term comprises processing a provided term that is a synonym of the provided word.

10. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein processing the provided term from the one or more vocabularies comprises processing a provided term as a term with an assigned vocabulary.

11. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the provided term comprises a stemmed term.

12. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein processing the provided term from the one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation comprises:

processing a portion of a provided term;

initiating autocompletion, wherein autocompletion identifies one or more terms having the portion of the provided term;

displaying the identified one or more terms; and

receiving a completed term.

13. The program storage device of claim 1, further comprising retrieving data associated with the provided term within at least one of the one or more vocabularies.

14. The program storage device of claim 13, wherein retrieving the data associated with the term comprises retrieving a plurality of documents associated with the term.

15. The program storage device of claim 13, wherein retrieving the data associated with the term comprises inferring associative links between documents associated with the term.

16. The program storage device of claim 13, wherein retrieving the data associated with the term comprises retrieving data from a vocabulary, wherein the term is associated with a vocabulary that is a subset of the vocabulary by which data is to be retrieved.

17. The program storage device of claim 13, wherein retrieving data associated with the term comprises retrieving data from a subset of the vocabulary.

18. The program storage device of claim 13, wherein retrieving data associated with the term comprises retrieving data from one or more vocabularies.

19. The program storage device of claim 13, further comprising associating a weight with the data retrieved based on the relation the retrieved data has with the term.

20. A device for providing markup language-based delimited words comprising:

a memory for storing data therein; and

a processor configured for adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation, and processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.

24. The program storage device of claim 20, wherein the one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation comprises one or more vocabularies defined using mapping.

25. The program storage device of claim 24, wherein the one or more vocabularies defined using mapping comprises a plurality of vocabularies defined using a map of RDF IDs.

26. The program storage device of claim 24, wherein the one or more vocabularies defined using mapping comprises a one or more vocabularies defined using a fixed attribute for a semantic URI, wherein the fixed attribute for the semantic URI is associated with a fixed attribute for a markup language.

27. The program storage device of claim 20, wherein processing the provided term comprises processing the provided term based on a provided word associated with the term.

28. The program storage device of claim 20, wherein the provided term comprises a provided term that is a synonym of the provided word.

29. The program storage device of claim 20, wherein processing the provided term from the one or more vocabularies comprises processing a provided term as a term with an assigned vocabulary.

30. The program storage device of claim 20, wherein the provided term comprises a stemmed term.

31. The program storage device of claim 20, wherein processing the provided term from the one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation comprises:

processing a portion of a provided term;

initiating autocompletion, wherein autocompletion identifies one or more terms having the portion of the provided term;

displaying the identified one or more terms; and

receiving a completed term.

32. The program storage device of claim 20, further comprising retrieving data associated with the provided term within at least one of the one or more vocabularies.

33. The program storage device of claim 32, wherein retrieving data associated with the term comprises retrieving a plurality of documents associated with the term.

34. The program storage device of claim 33, wherein retrieving documents associated with the term comprises retrieving documents having associative links between documents associated with the term.

35. The program storage device of claim 32, wherein retrieving data associated with the provided term comprises retrieving data associated with the provided term from a vocabulary, wherein the term is associated with a vocabulary that is a subset of the vocabulary where data is to be retrieved.

36. The program storage device of claim 32, wherein retrieving data associated with the provided term comprises retrieving data associated with the provided term from a subset of the vocabulary.

37. The program storage device of claim 32, wherein retrieving data associated with the provided term comprises retrieving data associated with the provided term from one or more vocabularies.

38. The program storage device of claim 32, further comprising associating a weight with the data retrieved based on the relation the retrieved data has with the term.

21. A processing system comprising:

means for adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation; and

means for processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.

22. A system tangibly embodying one or more programs of instructions executable by the computer to perform operations for delimiting words, the operations comprising:

means for adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation; and

means for processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.

23. A system for providing markup language-based delimited words comprising:

means for providing a memory for storing data therein; and

means for providing a processor configured for adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation, and processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.

39. A device for providing markup language-based delimited words comprising:

a memory for storing data therein; and

a processor configured for adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation, and processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.

40. A processing system comprising:

means for adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation; and

means for processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.

41. A system tangibly embodying one or more programs of instructions executable by the computer to perform operations for delimiting words, the operations comprising:

means for adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation; and

means for processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.

42. A system for providing markup language-based delimited words comprising:

means for providing a memory for storing data therein; and

means for providing a processor configured for adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation, and processing a provided term from one or more vocabularies for use in the knowledge representation.