Information system with knowledge base and data base
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1. Apparatus for locating entities comprising:
- means for making a compositional description built from a previously-defined concept which defines a collection to which one or more of the entities potentially belongs;
means for translating the compositional description into a query;
a data base for storing the entities; and
a data base management system for responding to the query by locating the entities belonging to the collection in the data base.
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods for integrating a knowledge base management system with a data base system. The knowledge base management system employs compositional descriptions which describe information in terms of concepts. A translation component of the apparatus translates compositional descriptions into data base queries, so that information matching a compositional description may be retrieved from the data base. The translation component further permits display of the retrieved data in terms of the compositional description. The returned information can be automatically integrated into the knowledge base, either item by item or on the basis of the compositional description which was used to return the information.
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29 Claims
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1. Apparatus for locating entities comprising:
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means for making a compositional description built from a previously-defined concept which defines a collection to which one or more of the entities potentially belongs; means for translating the compositional description into a query; a data base for storing the entities; and a data base management system for responding to the query by locating the entities belonging to the collection in the data base. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18, 19, 20)
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10. Apparatus for operating, on entities comprising:
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a knowledge system for performing operations based on compositional descriptions of the entities which are built from previously-defined concepts; a data base system for performing at least the operation of answering data base queries concerning the entities; and translation means for receiving one of the compositional descriptions, making at least one data base query therefrom, receiving an answer to the data base query from the data base system, and providing a compositional description for the answer to the knowledge system for use in an operation of the knowledge system. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A method employed in an information system including a data base system of obtaining a collection of entities from the data base system comprising the steps of:
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receiving a first compositional description built from a previously-defined concept in the information system which defines the collection of entities; automatically translating the first compositional description into a first query for the data base system; and employing the first query to locate the collection of entities in the data base system. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23)
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24. Apparatus for operating on entities comprising:
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a knowledge base system for performing operations based on compositional descriptions of the entities which are built from previously-defined concepts; a data base system for performing at least the operation of answering data base queries concerning the entities; translation means for receiving one of the compositional descriptions, making at least one data base query therefrom, receiving a result of to the data base query from the data base system, and providing compositional descriptions of any entities in the result; and integration means for receiving the compositional descriptions for the entities and integrating the compositional descriptions for the entities into the knowledge base system without classifying the compositional description for each entity individually. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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27. A method employed in a knowledge base system of adding a collection of entities obtained from a data base system to the knowledge base system comprising the steps of:
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translating a query used to obtain the collection of entities from the data base system into compositional descriptions of the entities; and integrating the compositional descriptions for the entities into the knowledge base system without classifying the compositional description for each entity individually. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
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