Method and system for identifying expertise
First Claim
1. An automated method for identifying and displaying entities having expertise in one or more subjects, the method comprising:
- querying a database for documents relevant to a subject, the documents being indicative of expertise in one or more subject areas;
calculating a first score for each relevant document based on one or more indicators of expertise in the subject;
determining entities associated with each relevant document, each of the entities being associated with one or more documents in a set of documents, the entities including at least one institution, at least one author, and at least one geographic region;
wherein the determining of the at least one institution associated with a relevant document includes determining from a document in the set of documents an affiliated institution of the at least one author;
wherein determining a geographic region associated with a relevant document includes determining an address of an entity, the address determined at least in part on a document in the set of documents associated with the entity;
calculating a second score for each entity based on the first scores of the one or more documents in the set of documents associated with each entity;
calculating a third score for each of a plurality of geographic regions based on the second scores of each entity located within each geographic region;
ranking expertise associated with the plurality of entities based on the second scores for each entity;
ranking expertise associated with the plurality of geographic regions based on the third scores for each geographic region;
hierarchically displaying to a user the ranking of expertise of the plurality of geographic regions;
wherein the hierarchical displaying includes displaying a user-selectable reference to one or more entities associated with each geographic region, the user-selectable reference to one or more entities further displaying a hierarchical ranking of expertise of the one or more entities associated with the selected geographic region;
wherein the displaying the ranking of expertise includes at least one of graphically or numerically depicting levels of expertise.
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Abstract
A system and method of identifying entities having expertise in one or more subjects. Among other features, the method includes querying a database for documents (e.g., articles, papers, periodicals) relevant to a subject; and calculating a first score for each relevant document. The method also identifies entities affiliated with one or more relevant documents; and calculates a second score for each entity based on the one or more first scores of the one or more relevant documents affiliated with the entity. A step of ranking expertise of the entities based on the respective second scores of the entities is included.
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1. An automated method for identifying and displaying entities having expertise in one or more subjects, the method comprising:
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querying a database for documents relevant to a subject, the documents being indicative of expertise in one or more subject areas; calculating a first score for each relevant document based on one or more indicators of expertise in the subject; determining entities associated with each relevant document, each of the entities being associated with one or more documents in a set of documents, the entities including at least one institution, at least one author, and at least one geographic region; wherein the determining of the at least one institution associated with a relevant document includes determining from a document in the set of documents an affiliated institution of the at least one author; wherein determining a geographic region associated with a relevant document includes determining an address of an entity, the address determined at least in part on a document in the set of documents associated with the entity; calculating a second score for each entity based on the first scores of the one or more documents in the set of documents associated with each entity; calculating a third score for each of a plurality of geographic regions based on the second scores of each entity located within each geographic region; ranking expertise associated with the plurality of entities based on the second scores for each entity; ranking expertise associated with the plurality of geographic regions based on the third scores for each geographic region; hierarchically displaying to a user the ranking of expertise of the plurality of geographic regions; wherein the hierarchical displaying includes displaying a user-selectable reference to one or more entities associated with each geographic region, the user-selectable reference to one or more entities further displaying a hierarchical ranking of expertise of the one or more entities associated with the selected geographic region; wherein the displaying the ranking of expertise includes at least one of graphically or numerically depicting levels of expertise. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24)
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21. A system for assessing expertise associated with an entity in a subject, the system comprising:
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a server system coupled to a database of documents, the server system comprising a memory having stored therein computer-readable code, and a processor for executing the computer-readable code stored in the memory, the computer-readable code comprising; a first code configured to receive a subject from a user; a second code configured to query the database for documents relevant to the subject, the documents being indicative of expertise in one or more subject areas; a third code configured to calculate a first score for each relevant document based on one or more indicators of expertise in the subject; a fourth code configured to determine entities associated with each relevant document, each of the entities being associated with one or more documents in a set of documents, the entities including at least one institution, at least one author, and at least one geographic region; wherein the determining of the at least one institution associated with a relevant document includes determining from a document in the set of documents an affiliated institution of the at least one author; wherein determining a geographic region associated with a relevant document includes determining an address of an entity, the address determined at least in part on a document in the set of documents associated with the entity; a fifth code configured to calculate a second score for each entity based on the first scores of the one or more documents in the set of documents associated with each entity; a sixth code configured to calculate a third score for each of a plurality of geographic regions based on the second scores of each entity located within each geographic region; a seventh code configured to rank expertise associated with the plurality of entities based on the second scores for each entity; an eighth code configured to rank expertise associated with the plurality of geographic regions based on the third scores for each geographic region; and a ninth code configured to hierarchically display to a user the ranking of expertise of the plurality of geographic regions; wherein the hierarchically displaying includes displaying a user-selectable reference to one or more entities associated with each geographic region, the user-selectable reference to one or more entities further displaying a hierarchical ranking of expertise of the one or more entities associated with the selected geographic region; wherein the displaying the ranking of expertise includes at least one of graphically or numerically depicting levels of expertise.
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