ADAPTABLE FRAMEWORK FOR ONTOLOGY-BASED INFORMATION EXTRACTION
First Claim
1. A warranty detection system for service repairs of vehicles, the system comprising:
- a warranty database for storing service repair verbatims, the service repair verbatims including information relating to an identified concern with the vehicle;
an ontology database that specifies relationships between service terms includes linking relationships between vehicle terminology and cluster categories, the ontology database being reconfigurable for allowing a user to add, delete, and modify contents within the ontology database;
a verbatim extraction tool for extracting service repair verbatims from the warranty database as function of user selected parameters and a user selected ontology, wherein the user selected ontology is a subset of the ontology database, wherein the service verbatims are segregated into a plurality of cluster categories as a function of the selected parameters and the user selected ontology; and
a report generating device for selectively generating reports based on segregating service verbatims into a plurality of cluster categories, the reports identifying an aggregate number of service verbatims associated with respective cluster categories, wherein each respective cluster category includes associated service repair verbatims that are selected as a function of the linking relationship of terms within the service verbatim and the user selected ontology.
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Abstract
A warranty database stores service repair verbatims. An ontology database that specifies relationships between service terms includes linking relationships between vehicle terminology and cluster categories. The ontology database is reconfigurable for allowing a user to add, delete, and modify contents within the ontology database. A verbatim extraction tool extracts service repair verbatims from the warranty database as function of user selected parameters and a user selected ontology. The user selected ontology is a subset of the ontology database. The service verbatims are segregated into a plurality of cluster categories as a function of the selected parameters and the user selected ontology. A report generating device selectively generated reports based on segregating service verbatims into a plurality of cluster categories. Each respective cluster category includes associated service repair verbatims that are selected as a function of the linking relationship of terms within the service verbatim and the user selected ontology.
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24 Claims
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1. A warranty detection system for service repairs of vehicles, the system comprising:
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a warranty database for storing service repair verbatims, the service repair verbatims including information relating to an identified concern with the vehicle; an ontology database that specifies relationships between service terms includes linking relationships between vehicle terminology and cluster categories, the ontology database being reconfigurable for allowing a user to add, delete, and modify contents within the ontology database; a verbatim extraction tool for extracting service repair verbatims from the warranty database as function of user selected parameters and a user selected ontology, wherein the user selected ontology is a subset of the ontology database, wherein the service verbatims are segregated into a plurality of cluster categories as a function of the selected parameters and the user selected ontology; and a report generating device for selectively generating reports based on segregating service verbatims into a plurality of cluster categories, the reports identifying an aggregate number of service verbatims associated with respective cluster categories, wherein each respective cluster category includes associated service repair verbatims that are selected as a function of the linking relationship of terms within the service verbatim and the user selected ontology. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of categorizing service verbatims in a vehicle service reporting system, the method comprising the steps of:
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storing service repair verbatims in a warranty storage database that includes at least one memory storage device, the service repair verbatims including information relating to an identified concern with the vehicle; generating an ontology database that specifies relationships between service terms that includes linking relationships between vehicle terminology and cluster categories, the ontology database being reconfigurable for allowing a user to add, delete, and modify contents within the ontology database; extracting service repair verbatims from the warranty database as function of user selected parameters and a user selected ontology utilizing a verbatim extraction tool, wherein the user selected ontology is a subset of the ontology database, wherein the service verbatims are segregated into a plurality of cluster categories as a function of the selected parameters and the user selected ontology; and selectively generating reports based on segregating service verbatims into a plurality of cluster categories using a report generating device, the reports identifying an aggregate number of service verbatims associated with respective cluster categories, wherein each respective cluster category includes associated service repair verbatims that are selected as a function of the linking relationship of terms within the service verbatim and the user selected ontology. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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- 16. The system of claim 16 wherein the user selectively prunes terms from the selected ontology subset, wherein pruning includes discarding unwanted ontology from the local ontology database.
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