KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY TOOL NAVIGATION

• US 20090019391A1
• Filed: 07/18/2008
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Bechtel, Michael E., Mathur, Sanjay, Arago, Jordi
• Granted Patent: US 8,010,581 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition

Abstract

A system including a knowledge model is provided. The system includes an interface for presenting a relationship between two entities of a knowledge model. The interface includes a method that accepts a first input representative of a selection of a first interface item, the first interface item associated with an entity of the knowledge model. The method also includes presenting, in response to the acceptance, a second interface item, the second interface item associated with a second entity of the knowledge model, wherein the second entity has a relationship with the selected entity and the relationship has a relationship type selected from the group consisting of a direct relationship type or a derived relationship type. Finally, the method also includes presenting a relationship indicia representative of the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.

Claims

1. A method for presenting relationships between data items in a knowledge model database, comprising:

integrating a plurality of data items into a plurality of entity tables in the knowledge model database, the plurality of data items extracted from a plurality of data sources, including a first data source and a second data source;

determining relationships between the plurality of data items in the knowledge model database, wherein the relationships include;

a direct relationship between first and second data items extracted from the first data source and integrated in different entity tables in the knowledge model database,

a field-to-text relationship between a third data item extracted from a third data source and a fourth data item included in a literature table in the knowledge model database, wherein the literature table includes data items extracted from a fourth data source, the fourth data source being a first textual data source that includes the third data item,

a transitive relationship between data items extracted from different data sources, wherein the transitive relationship is based on a plurality of direct relationships,

a proximity relationship between data items extracted from a fifth data source, wherein the proximity relationship is defined, at least in part, by a proximity between the data items within the fifth data source;

displaying, concurrently, a plurality of panels on a display, including;

an active panel displaying a selected data item, the selected data item selected from among the plurality of data items,

a plurality of entity panels displaying data items related to the selected data item; and

displaying relationship indicia on the display indicative of relationship types between the selected data item and the displayed data items, the relationship indicia including direct relationship indicia, field-to-text relationship indicia, transitive relationship indicia, and proximity relationship indicia.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising updating the display upon receiving a user input selecting a second selected data item from one of the plurality of displayed entity panels as the data item for display in the active panel.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying in at least one of the plurality of entity tables a menu that includes a list of all possible entity tables of the knowledge model database that are associated with the selected data item.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying within one of the plurality of entity panels relationship information between a data item displayed in said one of the plurality of entity panels and the selected data item.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein integrating the plurality of data items into the plurality of entity tables in the knowledge model database includes:

determining, for a data field of an entity table, a first confidence value reflecting a first reliability of a sixth data source having first data for the data field, and a second confidence value reflecting a second reliability of a seventh data source having second data for the data field; and

integrating either the first data or the second data in the data field based on a comparison between the first confidence value and the second confidence value.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising displaying only data items having at least a threshold confidence value, the threshold confidence value selected by a user.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the data items displayed in one of said plurality of entity panels includes only data items from a user selected journal.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the data items displayed in one of said plurality of entity panels includes only data items from data sources published within a user selectable time period.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the data items displayed in one of said plurality of entity panels includes only data items integrated from a user selectable source.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the data items displayed in one of said plurality of entity panels includes only data items that have a direct relationship to the selected data item.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the relationship indicia includes a plurality of colors, wherein each color corresponds to a relationship type.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the relationship indicia includes a plurality of line types between the selected data item and the displayed data items related to the selected data item, wherein each line type corresponds to a relationship type.