Reverse content indexing

• US 6,282,534 B1
• Filed: 03/13/1998
• Issued: 08/28/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Vora, Sanjay V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Amsbury, Wayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): PARDO, THUY N
• Application Number:
  US09/039,166
• Time in Patent Office: 1,264 Days
• Field of Search: 706/11, 706/50, 706/52, 706/53, 706/59, 706/45, 707/4, 707/5, 707/512, 707/3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access

Abstract

A method for generating knowledge base entries by using a programmed computer with access to said knowledge base is disclosed. In one embodiment, after information is collected from content providers, the present invention attempts to generate questions which relate to the collected information. Such questions are presented to a non-expert user in view of received information. If the information does not answer the generated questions, the user modifies the questions so that the information becomes the solutions to them. Then these questions and solutions pairs are entered into the knowledge base.

Claims

1. A method for generating entries of a knowledge base, the method comprising:

a. collecting tagged information from content providers by linking to content providers'"'"' information sources, obtaining information from said sources and maintaining said collected tagged information;

b. parsing said tagged information and automatically generating a question from said parsed information; and

c. providing a user interface for review of said automatically generated question, said user interface to allow modification of said automatically generated question so that said parsed information becomes a solution to said automatically generated question, said interface further to enable entry of said modified automatically generated question and said solution into said knowledge base.

2. A machine readable medium having embodied thereon instructions, which when executed by a machine, causes said machine to generate entries to a knowledge base, wherein said instructions comprising:

a. an information collector source code segment comprising receiving information from content providers and maintaining received information;

b. a question generator source code segment comprising parsing received information and generating a question that relates to the parsed information; and

c. a user interface source code segment comprising outputting a computer generated question with the parsed information;

allowing modification of said question so that said information becomes a solution to said question; and

entering the modified question with said solution as entries into said knowledge base.

3. The machine readable medium according claim 2, wherein said information collector source code segment in (a) requires content providers to supply various tags which differentiate one portion of information from another to said information collector source code segment.

4. The machine readable medium according claim 2, wherein said information collector source code segment in (a) establishes direct links to content providers'"'"' information sources.

5. The machine readable medium according claim 3, wherein said question generator source code segment in (b) generates a question based on content providers'"'"' supplied tags.

6. The machine readable medium according claim 2, wherein said user interface source code segment in (c) allows a non-expert user review said generated question in view of said information.

7. A machine readable medium having embodied thereon instructions, which when executed by a machine, causes said machine to generate entries to a knowledge base, wherein said instructions comprising:

a. an information collector source code segment comprising establishing direct links to content providers'"'"' information sources, receiving tagged information from content providers and maintaining received information;

b. a question generator source code segment comprising parsing received tagged information and generating a question according to content providers'"'"' supplied tags; and

c. a user interface source code segment comprising outputting a computer generated question with the parsed information;

having a non-expert user review said generated question in view of said information;

when necessary, having said user modify said question so that said information becomes solutions to said question; and

having said user enter the modified questions with said solution as an entry into said knowledge base.

8. A computer system with access to a knowledge base, comprising:

a. an information collector to collect information from content providers;

b. a question generator to automatically generate a question from said collected information; and

c. a user interface to allow a user to modify said automatically generated question so that said collected information becomes a solution to said automatically generated question and to enter said modified automatically generated question with said solution into said knowledge base.

9. The computer system according to claim 8, wherein said content providers supplies various tags which differentiate one portion of information from another.

10. The computer system according to claim 8, wherein said information collector comprises linking to content providers'"'"' information sources, obtaining information from said sources and maintaining said collected information.

11. The computer system according to claim 9, wherein said question generator parses content providers'"'"' supplied information and generates a question based on their tags.

12. A computer system with access to a knowledge base, comprising:

a. an information collector to collect tagged information from content providers by linking to content providers'"'"' information sources, obtaining information from said sources and maintaining said collected tagged information;

b. a question generator to parse said tagged information and to automatically generate a question from said parsed information;

c. a user interface for review of said automatically generated question; and

d. said user interface to allow modification of said automatically generated question so that said parsed information becomes a solution to said automatically generated question and to enable entry of said modified automatically generated question with said solution as an entry into said knowledge base.