METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR SEMANTICALLY ENRICHING CONTENT AND FOR SEMANTIC NAVIGATION

• US 20130024440A1
• Filed: 07/22/2011
• Published: 01/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc
• Original Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc
• Inventors: Dimassimo, Pascal, Pettigrew, Steve, Brousseau, Martin, Simard, Charles-Olivier, Williams, Eric, Lacroix, Francis, Dowgailenko, Alex, Deligia, Agostino, Texier, Jean-Michel
• Granted Patent: US 9,298,816 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/709
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/316 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3325 Reformulation based on results of preceding query
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3344 using natural language analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/36 Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

Methods, systems and computer-readable media enable various techniques related to semantic navigation. One aspect is a technique for displaying semantically derived facets in the search engine interface. Each of the facets comprises faceted search results. Each of the faceted search results is displayed in association with user interface elements for including or excluding the faceted search result as additional search terms to subsequently refine the search query. Another aspect automatically infers new metadata from the content and from existing metadata and then automatically annotates the content with the new metadata to improve recall and navigation. Another aspect identifies semantic annotations by determining semantic connections between the semantic annotations and then dynamically generating a topic page based on the semantic connections.

Claims

1. A method of displaying search results on a computing device, the method comprising:

receiving search results in response to a search query;

displaying on the computing device a list of search results in a search engine interface; and

displaying a plurality of semantic facets in the search engine interface, each of the facets comprising faceted search results, each of the faceted search results being displayed in association with user interface elements for including or excluding the faceted search result as additional search terms to subsequently refine the search query.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

displaying search results for a subsequent search using all included or excluded faceted search results as additional search terms; and

displaying all the included and excluded faceted search results that have been used as additional search terms in association with a user interface element for deselecting the additional search terms.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the user interface element for including a faceted search result is a virtual button marked with a first symbol whereas the user interface element for excluding a faceted search result is a virtual button marked with a second symbol.

4. A method for presenting content on a computing device, the method comprising:

identifying a plurality of semantic annotations for content;

determining one or more semantic connections between the semantic annotations; and

dynamically generating a topic page based on the one or more semantic connections.

5. A method, performed by a computing device, for annotating content, the method comprising:

automatically inferring new semantic metadata from the content and from existing semantic metadata; and

automatically annotating the content with the new semantic metadata.

6. A method, performed by a computing device, for semantically searching content, the method comprising:

displaying a first facet and a second facet as part of faceted search results in response to a search query;

associating a first facet with a second facet in response to user input; and

searching a semantic index based on the first and second facets by cross-referencing semantic metadata for the content associated with the first facet with metadata for the content associated with the second facet.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising pivoting the first and second facets to provide pivoted faceted search results.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising programmed instructions in code which, when loaded into a memory and executed by a processor of a computing device, causes the computing device to:

receive search results in response to a search query;

display a list of search results in a search engine interface; and

display a plurality of facets in the search engine interface, each of the facets comprising faceted search results, each of the faceted search results being displayed in association with user interface elements for including or excluding the faceted search result as additional search terms to subsequently refine the search query.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 8, comprising code to:

display search results for a subsequent search using all included or excluded faceted search results as additional search terms; and

display all the included and excluded faceted search results that have been used as additional search terms in association with a user interface element for deselecting the additional search terms.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 9, wherein comprising code for causing the device to display the user interface element for including a faceted search result as a virtual button marked with a first symbol and to display the user interface element for excluding a faceted search result as a virtual button marked with a second symbol.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising programmed instructions in code which, when loaded into a memory and executed by a processor of a computing device, causes the computing device to:

identify a plurality of semantic annotations for content;

determine one or more semantic connections between the semantic annotations; and

dynamically generate a topic page based on the one or more semantic connections.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising programmed instructions in code which, when loaded into a memory and executed by a processor of a computing device, causes the computing device to:

automatically infer new metadata from content and from existing metadata; and

automatically annotate the content with the new metadata.

13. A semantic navigation system comprising:

an ingestion broker for ingesting content from client systems;

a web crawler operatively connected to the ingestion broker for crawling web content for the ingestion broker;

an engine for operating a semantic index;

a content analytics module operatively connected to the engine for analyzing content to generate semantic metadata for the semantic index; and

a presentation module having presentation logic for presenting search results obtained by querying the semantic index.

14. The system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the presentation module comprises a widget server for providing one or more widgets for presenting search results.

15. The system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the presentation module comprises a theme library for generating a search result interface.

16. The system as claimed in claim 13, further comprising a management console for providing one or more of slider-based ranking algorithm tweaking, schema customization, crawler configuration, forced placements configuration and content cleanup.

17. The system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the ingestion broker enables chaining of transformers and processors.

18. The system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the content analytics module comprises configurable content analytic profiles.

19. The system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the engine provides file-system persistence of semantic metadata to enable fast re-indexing.