Interactive and social knowledge discovery sessions

• US 8,775,365 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2010
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hamid Hatami-Hanza
• Original Assignee: Hamid Hatami-Hanza
• Inventors: Hatami-Hanza, Hamid
• Primary Examiner(s): Abrishamkar, Kaveh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wilcox, James J
• Application Number:
  US12/955,496
• Publication Number:
  US 20110218960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,317 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/603
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/367 Ontology
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition

Abstract

There are provided systems and methods that can assist interactively a knowledge user/contributor to obtain a straight answer to his/her request for knowledge about one or more subject matter, can mediates a large group of unknown inquirers and present them with distilled stage of knowledge related to a subject matter, and/or can guide and assist, individually or socially, to find or discover credible and value significant knowledge at much faster rate than the current traditional method of using search engine directories, social networking, blogging, and bookmarking websites. The methods, systems and services of the presented disclosure can significantly increase productivity of knowledge-based users and quality of their work.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method, comprising an implementation using a portion or whole capacity of one or more non-transitory computer readable media with a set of instructions thereon, executable by one or more processing devices, configured, while being or is executed, for providing an interactive knowledge discovery session to a client comprising:

providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, an interactive environment to obtain the client'"'"'s input, said input is useable to indicate a body of knowledge composed of ontological subjects and a form of response from a plurality of forms of responses;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of a plurality of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into a plurality of partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of said body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge;

providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, at least one output using one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge in response to the client'"'"'s input, based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge and the form of response, and

being responsive to further inputs.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the ontological subjects of the partitions are replaced with other ontological subjects.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the client'"'"'s input is based on the response of previous input.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the body of knowledge includes the client'"'"'s input.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the output contains one or more of the followings:

i. summary of the body of knowledge,

ii. bulleted summary of the body of knowledge,

iii. dense summary of the body of knowledge,

iv. query specific summary from the body of knowledge,

v. graphs of associated subject matters and/or ontological subject maps built from the body of knowledge,

vi. content composition, generated in demand based on a query, from the body of knowledge,

vii. content containing two or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge,

viii. answers to questions, said answer extracted and composed using the ontological subjects or partitions of the body of knowledge,

ix. list of ranked partitions from the body of knowledge,

x. novel information about the queried subject matter in the context of the body of knowledge,

xi. a content suggesting a query,

xii. a content proposing an idea,

xiii. a content proposing one or more questions,

xiv. a content proposing a research trajectory,

xv. a content including one or more novel part of the body of knowledge,

xvi. credible summary according to an updated state of knowledge in the body of knowledge and/or the client'"'"'s input.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein content of said output is embodied in a program instructions, executable by at least one processor, configured to cause the content being displayed in a predefined format on the client'"'"'s display.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the value significances is an indication of one or more or any combination of the following significance aspect of the partition and/or the ontological subjects:

credibility,

novelty,

density significance,

recentness,

informational value.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the body of knowledge contains news content.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the interactive environment includes a graphical user interface.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 9, wherein the client'"'"'s input is given by pointing and/or selecting graphical objects on a display.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 9, wherein the graphical user interface is a cognitive graph comprising selectable or point-able graphical objects, wherein said graph represents a context for the body of knowledge.

12. A computer implemented method, comprising an implementation using a portion or whole capacity of one or more non-transitory computer readable media with a set of instructions thereon, executable by one or more processing devices, configured, while being or is executed, for representing a context for a body of knowledge by at least one graph comprising:

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of said body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge;

identifying, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a plurality of ontological subjects of the body of knowledge based on their significance values and/or the association strength between at least two of the ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, and

representing the identified ontological subjects graphically, by graphical objects and/or symbols and/or connecting at least two of the associated ontological subjects with graphical links based on their association strength to each other.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein data respective of the graph is embedded in a computer program codes that when executed by at least one processor will cause to display the graph on a user'"'"'s display device.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 13, further comprising a computer graphical user interface that when a user selects and/or points to a graphical object of the graph and/or a link between graphical objects cause to obtain and display, on a user'"'"'s display device, one or more partition of a body of knowledge respective of the ontological subjects corresponding to the selected or pointed graphical object or the pointed link.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 13, further comprising a computer graphical user interface that when a user select and/or points to one or more graphical object of the graph and/or one or more link between graphical objects cause to obtain data and display, on a user'"'"'s display device, another graph respective of a plurality of ontological subjects of the body of knowledge having association strength of predefined range to the selected or pointed one or more graphical object and/or the selected one or more link.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein the graph includes a chart or has a free form.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein the graph is a tree like graph.

18. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein the body of knowledge is identified and/or assembled based on a user'"'"'s query.

19. The computer implemented method of claim 12, further comprising a graphical user interface that a user can point and/or interact and/or select the graphical objects and/or the links between the graphical objects.

20. The computer implemented method of claim 12, further comprising a graphical user interface wherein a user can identify an area of the graph wherein said area contains one or more of the graphical objects and/or one or more of the links between the graphical objects.

21. The computer implemented method of claim 12, further comprising an interactive graph representing the association and/or the association strengths of the graphical objects graphically.

22. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein a quantity respective of association strength of two graphical objects is graphically visualized by distance of a graphical object from its associates.

23. The computer implemented method of claim 12, further comprising:

making a visually displayable graph or network of graphical objects wherein the graphical objects representing the ontological subjects wherein each graphical object is connected to one or more of other graphical objects having association strength of predefined range of values with that graphical object.

24. The computer implemented method of claim 12, further configured to graphically indicate visually noticeable quantities proportional to the value of association strength of the ontological subjects of the body of knowledge to each other and/or the number of associated ontological subject depicted in an area of the graph.

25. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein the graphical objects includes objects indicative of one or more nodes and one or more edges of a graph.

26. The computer implemented method of claim 25, further comprising a graphical user interfaces that a user can select and/or point to one or more of the nodes or one or more of the edges.

27. The computer implemented method of claim 25, wherein the graphical distance between the nodes is determined by a function of the association strength of the nodes that are connected to each other.

28. A method of social and interactive knowledge discovery service comprising:

receiving one or more inputs from a user through one or more data communication devices;

providing an interactive knowledge discovery session interface for the user to interact with a program module comprising instructions configured, when executed using one or more data processing or computing devices, to perform;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of a body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge;

providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, at least one output using one or more partitions of the body of knowledge and/or one or more sets of ontological subjects in response to said one or more inputs from the user, based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge and the form of response, and

providing an environment for interaction between said program module and/or one or more other users respective of the user'"'"'s one or more inputs so as to have an interactive and/or social session.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the interactive environment is further configured to represent a user in the interactive environment by a visual object visible on the display device of at least one of the user.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein the interactive environment is visually displayed on a display device as a virtual roundtable conveying a group discussion environment.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein one or more inputs from one or more users are added to the body of knowledge.

32. The method of claim 28, wherein the program module further provides a score of value significance for at least one partition of a user'"'"'s input.

33. The method of claim 28, further configured to have an option so that another user with similar interest in the body of knowledge of the social session may join in the session based on said another user'"'"'s input or query.

34. The method of claim 28, wherein said program module is further configured to provide a plurality of options to a user to obtain one or more content related to the body of knowledge of the session.

35. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

enabling the user to edit a composition and/or compose a composition and/or add compositions to the body of knowledge of the session.

36. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

providing a reward to at least one user whose input has scored a predefined level of value significance in the body of knowledge of the session.

37. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

measuring the impact of a user'"'"'s contribution to the body of knowledge as a function of the variations in the value significances of the partitions of the body of knowledge after having a predefined number of inputs from one or more users and/or a predefined time interval.

38. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

interactively exploring details of the body of knowledge wherein the user input more specific query and obtain at least one respective piece of content in response to the query.

39. The method of claim 38, further comprising:

at least one program module comprising instructions executable by at least one processor configured to find at least one preferred research trajectory to a user based on the one or more users'"'"' interaction tracks and/or one or more users'"'"' past inputs.

40. A method of social knowledge discovery, comprising an implementation using a portion or whole capacity of one or more non-transitory computer readable media with a set of instructions thereon, executable by one or more processing apparatuses, configured, while being or is executed, to perform:

providing, using one or more computing devices, an environment for one or more users to input an initial query for indicating a subject matter for exploration;

guiding a user to at least one interactive and social knowledge discovery session, respective of the user'"'"'s initial query, wherein the user can input further contents;

providing a social interactive session environment for users indicated similar or associated subject matters for exploration wherein the session has at least one body of knowledge for exploration and can provide a response to one or more users'"'"' input to the session by;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of a body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge; and

composing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a response using one or more partitions of the body of knowledge or one or more sets of ontological subjects, based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge.

41. The method of claim 40, further providing a mediating environment by scoring a user'"'"'s input in terms of at least one aspect of its value significance thereby said users exploring similar subject matters are informed about the significance of a user'"'"'s input and accordingly participate in an interactive and social knowledge exploration session by further adding or inputting content.

42. The method of claim 41, wherein a user is further provided with an option to be notified about the new finding in the body of knowledge of a session after leaving the interactive and social session.

43. A method of social search and/or social interactive knowledge discovery comprising an implementation using a portion or whole capacity of one or more non-transitory computer readable media with a set of instructions thereon, executable by one or more processing apparatuses, configured, while being or is executed, to perform:

providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a searching utility environment wherein a participant can input a query or content;

providing an interactive knowledge discovery session related to a body of knowledge in response to a participant'"'"'s input to the searching utility;

providing a social and interactive environment for one or more participants wherein at least one participant can input content;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of a body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge; and

providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a content viewable by one or more participants based on one or more inputs from one or more participants in the session or using one or more sets of ontological subjects or one or more partitions of the body of knowledge based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge.

44. The method of claim 43, wherein one of the participants is an intelligent agent that provides dynamic contents in response to a participant'"'"'s input.

45. The method of claim 44, wherein the agent is a program module comprising instructions executable by one or more processors configured to perform:

identifying a body of knowledge related to a participant'"'"'s input, and

analyzing the participant'"'"'s input and providing a respective response using one or more partition of the body of knowledge having at least one predefined type of relationship with the participant'"'"'s input.

46. The method of claim 45, wherein the agent further configured to score value significance of a user'"'"'s input, according to at least one value significance measure.

47. The method of claim 45, wherein the agent updates the body of knowledge related to a subject matter in a predefined time intervals and/or according to a participant'"'"'s input.

48. The method of claim 45, wherein the agent further provides content comprising embedded content and instruction codes executable by one or more processors configured to display the embedded content on the participant'"'"'s display device in a pre-programmed format.

49. The method of claim 45, wherein the agent further mediates the one or more participants by way of scoring a participant'"'"'s input in terms of at least one aspect of significance and/or relevancy using content existed in the body of knowledge.

50. The method of claim 45, further configured in such a way that a participant can establish an online journal and the agent provides assistance to evaluate the value of the inputs in respect to the content existed in the body of knowledge.

51. The method of claim 43, wherein said content includes the latest state of the knowledge having predefined level of value significance related to at least one significance aspect of the content in the body of knowledge.

52. The method of claim 43, further configured to provide a reward to at least one participant.

53. The method of claim 43, wherein at least one participant is a registered user.

54. The method of claim 43, further configured in such a way that a third party can provide an incentive for providing content in respect to a subject matter or another content.

55. The method of claim 43, wherein the content is shared and/or published by one or more of the participants in a predetermined medium.

56. The method of claim 43, wherein a session is started for producing new contents.

57. The method of claim 56, wherein the new content is a multimedia.

58. A system of providing at least one service over a data network comprising:

at least one software module comprising instructions, executable by one or more processors, configured, using one or more data processing or computing devices, to create an interactive session environment for obtaining an input from a user;

at least one first program comprising instructions, executable by one or more processors, configured to access at least one content, said at least one content is the output of at least one second program comprising instructions, executable by one or more processors, configured to perform;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of a body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge;

providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a content according to the user'"'"'s input using one or more partitions of the body of knowledge based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge; and

at least one server computer, having at least one processing device, to respond to a user'"'"'s input over a network.

59. The system of claim 58, wherein the body of knowledge is accessed based on the user'"'"'s input and/or is provided by the user.

60. The system of claim 58, further comprising instructions, executable by one or more processors, configured to send the content over the network.

61. The system of claim 58, wherein the at least one second program further comprising instructions, executable by one or more processors, configured to display an interactive graphical interface representing a cognitive map of the body of knowledge on the user'"'"'s display device.

62. The system of claim 58, wherein said body of knowledge contains one or more news content.

63. The system of claim 58, wherein the data network is internet.

64. A system for providing interactive knowledge discovery service to a client or user comprising:

a receiving module configured to receive an input from a client or user over a data network;

an access module, comprised of at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer executable instructions thereon and/or one or more processing apparatuses and/or one or more data communication devices, providing access to at least one processing device and/or at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium over a first network;

a facilitating module facilitating access to at least one content corresponding to the client'"'"'s or user'"'"'s input, said at least one content is an output of at least one software module executed using one or more processing devices and/or one or more computer-readable storage medium over a second network to perform;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of a body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge; and

providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a content according to the client'"'"'s or user'"'"'s input using one or more partitions of the body of knowledge based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge.

65. The system of claim 64, wherein said data network is the internet.

66. The system of claim 65, wherein at least one of the processing apparatus and/or at least one of the storage medium is located in geographically different location than the rest of the system.

67. The system of claim 64, wherein the first network and/or the second network is the internet.

68. The system of claim 64, wherein the second network is a cloud computing network comprising:

at least two processing apparatus, at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and at least one communication link between the processing devices and the at least one storage medium.

69. The system of claim 64, wherein further includes computer-readable storage media, over the first and/or over the second network, to store one or more of the following:

i. at least one composition as a body of knowledge,

ii. at least some of the partitions of the at least one composition,

iii. at least some ontological subjects,

iv. at least one set of data respective of a value significances of the partitions and/or the ontological subjects of the body of knowledge,

v. one or more index list of the partitions and the ontological subjects of the body of knowledge,

vi. at least one pre-made content composition from the body of knowledge,

vii. at least some of the user'"'"'s input.

70. The system of claim 64, further configured to score significance of a user'"'"'s input against the partitions of the body of knowledge.

71. The system of claim 64, wherein a content composition is assembled by said provider of the service in response to the client'"'"'s input.

72. The system of claim 64, wherein the first and the second network form a single network or are parts of a larger network architecture.

73. A system for providing a service to a client comprising:

one or more network communication apparatuses, said one or more apparatuses receiving the data initiated from a client over a communication and/or computer network;

one or more communication apparatuses, said one or more apparatuses exchanging data signals with one or more processing apparatus capable of executing one or more sets of instructions that, when being or is executed, configured to output a composition, comprising;

accessing at least one body of knowledge and being responsive to the data received from a client;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of the body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge; and

providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a content related to one or more partitions of the body of knowledge that are selected based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge; and

embedding them in a computer-executable instructions that when executed by the client'"'"'s computer system cause the client'"'"'s computer to display the composition on the client'"'"'s display device.

74. The system of claim 73, further comprising:

one or more computer servers with network communication apparatus connecting to repositories of compositions or partitions of said compositions, said one or more servers are, or have access to one or more, computer systems that are capable of executing computer program instructions to perform a task; and

one or more data repositories corresponding to at least one array of data extracted and/or calculated based on data respective of participation patterns of a plurality of constituent ontological subjects of one or more compositions into a plurality of partitions of the one or more compositions.

75. The system of claim 73, wherein the system is distributed and at least one part of the system is physically located in, or performs from, different location from the rest of the system.

76. The system of claim 73, wherein the system is distributed and at least one of the one or more processing apparatus is physically located in, or performs from, different location from the rest of the system.

77. A method of facilitating a service for a client over a communication and/or computer network, comprising:

providing an access for the client over the network;

receiving signals or an input from the client, said input can be used to identify the network address of a provider of said service;

transmitting signals or data toward the provider of said service;

facilitating for exchanging signals or data between the client and the provider of said service, wherein said service is performed by at least one program comprising instructions, executable by one or more processors, configured to process an input and provides two or more of the following;

1. providing an interactive environment to obtain the client'"'"'s input in such a way that said input indicates a respective body of knowledge and a selected form of response from a plurality of forms of responses;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of the body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge; and

providing one output related to one or more partitions of the body of knowledge that are selected based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge;

2. providing at least one cognitive graph from a body of knowledge by;

identifying, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a plurality of ontological subjects of the body of knowledge based on their significance values and/or the association strength between at least two of the ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, and

representing the identified ontological subjects graphically, by graphical objects and/or symbols and/or connecting at least two of the associated ontological subjects with graphical links based on their association strength to each other;

3. accessing to at least one pre-built body of knowledge which has been built in response to a client'"'"'s request; and

4. providing a social interaction session for users looking for information related to similar or associated subject matters.

78. The method of claim 77, wherein the network is the internet.

79. The method of claim 77, wherein the body of knowledge is provided by the client.

80. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program, comprises of one or more sets of instructions, stored thereon, wherein the program configured, when being or is executed, to instruct one or more processors to perform:

providing an interactive environment to obtain a client'"'"'s input, said input is useable to indicate a body of knowledge composed of ontological subjects and a form of response from a plurality of forms of responses;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of the body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge; and

providing one output related to one or more partitions of the body of knowledge based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge and the selected form of response, and

being responsive to further inputs.

81. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 80, wherein the body of knowledge includes one or more of inputs from one or more clients.

82. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 80, wherein the at least one of the value significances is an indication of one or more and/or any combination of the following significance aspect of the partition and/or the ontological subjects:

credibility;

novelty;

density significance;

recentness; and

informational value.

83. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 80, wherein the body of knowledge includes news content.

84. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 80, wherein the interactive environment includes a graphical user interface, wherein the client'"'"'s input is given by pointing and/or selecting graphical objects on a display.

85. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 84, wherein the graphical user interface is a cognitive graph comprising selectable or point-able graphical objects, wherein said graph represents a context for the body of knowledge.

86. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program comprises of one or more sets of instructions stored thereon, wherein the program configured, when being or is executed, to instruct one or more processors to perform:

receiving a request and/or a query from a user;

providing an interactive knowledge discovery session interface for the user to interact with a computer program module having instructions embodied thereon, executable by at least one processor configured to perform;

accessing or building a first one or more data structures corresponding to at least one participation matrix representing participation of ontological subjects of a first predefined order into partitions or ontological subjects of a second predefined order of a body of knowledge;

accessing, or building in real time, a second one or more data structures corresponding to association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects of a predefined order;

wherein said association strength is a function of;

i. probability of occurrences of some of the ontological subjects of the first order in partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order of the body of knowledge, and

ii. co-occurrences of some ontological subjects of the first order in some of partitions or ontological subjects of a predefined order;

accessing evaluated, or evaluating in real time, value significances for one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, based on data of one or more of said first and second one or more data structures and in respect to at least one significance aspect of the one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge;

providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, at least one output using one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge in response to said one or more inputs from the user, based on the evaluated value significances of the one or more partitions and/or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge, and the form of response, and

providing an environment for interaction between said program module and/or one or more other users respective of the user'"'"'s one or more inputs so as to have an interactive and/or social session.

87. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 86, wherein the interactive environment is further configured to represent a user in the interactive environment by a visual object visible on the display apparatus of at least one of the user.

88. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 86, wherein one or more inputs from one or more users are added to the body of knowledge.

89. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 86, wherein the program further provides a score of value significance for at least one partition of a user'"'"'s input.

90. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 86, further configured to have an option so that another user with similar interest in the body of knowledge of the social session may join in the session based on said another user'"'"'s input and/or query.

91. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 86, wherein said program is further configured to provide a plurality of options to a user to obtain one or more content related to the body of knowledge of the session.

92. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 86, further comprising at least one program comprising instructions executable by at least one processor configured to find at least one preferred research trajectory to a user based on the users'"'"' interaction tracks and/or users'"'"' past inputs.

93. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 86, further comprising:

providing a reward to at least one user whose input has scored a predefined level of value significance in the body of knowledge of the session, wherein the body of knowledge includes the user'"'"'s input.

94. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 86, further comprising at least one program comprising instructions executable by at least one processor configured to find at least one preferred research trajectory to a user based on one or more users'"'"' interaction tracks and/or one or more users'"'"' past inputs.