TECHNIQUES FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY BY CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE CORRELATIONS USING CONCEPTS OR TERMS

• US 20160224669A1
• Filed: 04/11/2016
• Published: 08/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Make Sence Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Make Sence Incorporated
• Inventors: BOBICK, Mark, WIMMER, Carl
• Granted Patent: US 10,467,297 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24522 Translation of natural language queries to structured queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9532 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/247 Thesauruses; Synonyms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition

Abstract

Techniques for identifying knowledge use an graphical user interface for inputting one or more terms to be explored for additional knowledge. Then a search is conducted across one or more sources of information to identify resources containing information about or information associated with said terms. The resources are decomposed into elemental units of information and stored in a data structures called nodes. A group of nodes are stored in a node pool and, from the node pool, correlations of nodes are constructed that represent knowledge.

Claims

1. A method for identifying knowledge, comprising the steps of:

a. inputting one or more terms to be explored for additional knowledge;

b. searching one or more sources of information to identify resources containing information about or information associated with said terms;

c. decomposing resources identified during searching into nodes;

d. storing nodes in a node pool; and

e. from the node pool, construct correlations of nodes representing knowledge.

2. The method of claim 1 in which the step of inputting comprises one of the steps of:

a. typing one or more terms into a command line;

or

b. inputing one or more terms into a graphical user interface;

or

c. inputting a natural language description of a concept.

3. The method of claim 2 in which the step of inputting a natural language description of a concept comprises the additional step of parsing the description into tokens to be explored for additional knowledge.

4. The method of claim 1 in which the step of searching comprises at least one of the following steps:

a. searching files on a personal computer;

b. searching files on one or more computers on a network;

or

c. searching files on a network server.

5. The method of claim 4 in which the files are translated into files containing text.

6. The method of claim 4 in which the step of searching comprises using one or more spiders to explore files.

7. The method of claim 6 in which a spider clones other spiders to facilitate searching.

8. The method of claim 6 in which at least one of said one or more spiders captures information about relevancy of a resource to the terms.

9. The method of claim 6 in which at least one of said one or more spiders comprises a meta-crawler.

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