System And Method For Triaging Of Information Feeds

• US 20110153646A1
• Filed: 12/23/2009
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center, Inc. (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center, Inc. (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Suh, Bongwon, Covertino, Gregorio, Chi, Ed H., Hong, Lichan
• Granted Patent: US 8,874,577 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3328 using graphical result space presentation or visualisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A system and method for triaging of information feeds is provided. A plurality of information feeds are received. At least one topic is identified from each information feed. At least one topic is presented to a user in topic facet including a plurality of identified topics. A selection of one of the plurality of topics is received from the user. The user interface is updated to display only the feeds that contain the selected topic.

Claims

1. A system for triaging information feeds, comprising:

a feed module to receive a plurality of information feeds;

a topic identification module to identify at least one topic from each information feed;

a presentation module to present the at least one topic to a user in topic facet comprising a plurality of identified topics;

a topic selection module to receive a selection of one of the plurality of topics from the user; and

an update module to update the user interface to display only the feeds that contain the selected topic.

2. A system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an extraction module to extract at least one of creator, source, and time of the information feed, wherein the presentation module further presents the at least one of extracted creator, source, and time in a creator facet, source facet, and time facet respectively.

3. A system according to claim 2, further comprising:

an element selection module to receive a user selection of an element in one of the creator facet, source facet, and time facet, wherein the update module further updates the user interface to display only the feeds that contain the selected element.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one topic is identified from one of content of the information feed, content related to the information feed, and tag metadata associated with the information feed.

5. A system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a part-of-speech tagger to identify at least one noun or noun phrase in each of the information feeds;

aggregating the occurrences of each of the nouns or noun phrases across all information feeds;

displaying a predetermined number of the nouns or noun phrases with the highest occurrences as the topics in the topic facet.

6. A system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a token extraction module to extract token from the information feed;

a query module to generate a query using the extracted noun phrases and applying the query to a set of documents;

a result identification module to identify those documents in the set that match the query as search results;

a threshold module to identify salient terms associated with each of the search results and apply a threshold to the identified salient terms; and

a topic module to select the salient terms that satisfy the threshold as topics for the information feed.

7. A system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a part-of-speech tagger to identify the tokens the information feed.

8. A system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a concatenation module to concatenate the extracted nouns to form the query.

9. A system according to claim 5, wherein the set of documents comprise Web-based documents.

10. A system according to claim 5, wherein the topics comprise at least one of a token identified in the information feed and a token absent from the information feed.

11. A method for triaging information feeds, comprising:

receiving a plurality of information feeds;

identifying at least one topic from each information feed;

presenting the at least one topic to a user in topic facet comprising a plurality of identified topics;

receiving a selection of one of the plurality of topics from the user; and

updating the user interface to display only the feeds that contain the selected topic.

12. A method according to claim 11, further comprising:

extracting at least one of creator, source, and time of the information feed; and

presenting the at least one of extracted creator, source, and time in a creator facet, source facet, and time facet respectively.

13. A method according to claim 12, further comprising:

receiving a user selection of an element in one of the creator facet, source facet, and time facet; and

updating the user interface to display only the feeds that contain the selected element.

14. A method according to claim 11, wherein the at least one topic is identified from one of content of the information feed, content related to the information feed, and tag metadata associated with the information feed.

15. A method according to claim 11, further comprising:

identifying at least one noun or noun phrase in each of the information feeds;

aggregating the occurrences of each of the nouns or noun phrases across all information feeds; and

displaying a predetermined number of the nouns or noun phrases with the highest occurrences as the topics in the topic facet.

16. A method according to claim 11, further comprising:

extracting tokens from the information feed;

generating a query using the extracted tokens and applying the query to a set of documents;

identifying those documents in the set that match the query as search results;

identifying salient terms associated with each of the search results and applying a threshold to the identified salient terms; and

selecting the salient terms that satisfy the threshold as topics for the information feed.

17. A method according to claim 16, further comprising:

applying a part-of-speech tagger to the information feed to identify the tokens.

18. A method according to claim 16, further comprising:

concatenating the extracted tokens to form the query

19. A method according to claim 16, wherein the set of documents comprise Web-based documents.

20. A method according to claim 16, wherein the topics comprise at least one of a noun identified in the information feed and a noun absent from the information feed.