Document analysis, commenting, and reporting system

• US 9,384,187 B2
• Filed: 08/06/2012
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Verma, Kunal, Kass, Alex
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Gregory J.
• Application Number:
  US13/567,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20120296940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,429 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/229, 715/234
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/36 Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques

Abstract

A method includes identifying a document structure instance that includes structure components. A selected structure component is chosen from the structure components. The method includes generating, with a processor, a hierarchical graph based on the selected structure component. The hierarchical graph includes classes, a class definition relationship, and an instance identifier that identifies the selected structure component. The hierarchical graph is output.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a document structure instance that includes a plurality of structure components;

selecting one structure component from the structure components;

selecting by a processor, a pre-configured core ontology hierarchy associated with the selected structure component, the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy including a plurality of classes, and a class definition relationships;

generating a document specific ontology hierarchy based on the selected pre-configured core ontology, wherein the document specific ontology includes a subset of the classes included in the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy;

inserting into the document specific ontology instance identifiers associated with each respective structure component; and

outputting the document specific ontology hierarchy.

2. The method of claim 1, where the class definition relationship illustrates a relationship between at least two of the classes.

3. The method of claim 1, where identifying comprises identifying the document structure instance using a document structure identifier.

4. The method of claim 3, where the document structure identifier identifies a document type including structure categories;

and

where the selected structure component is associated with at least one of the structure categories of the document type.

5. The method of claim 1, where the classes include a root class and a child class of the root class.

6. The method of claim 5, where the class definition relationship identifies a vertical relationship between the root class and the child class.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a glossary associated with the selected structure component, the glossary including permissible terms for a structure category associated with the selected structure component, the permissible terms including hierarchy parameters indicating parent or child relationships for the permissible terms.

8. The method of claim 7, where generating comprises generating the hierarchical graph using the hierarchy parameters of the permissible terms in the glossary.

9. The method of claim 1, where the class definition relationship comprises an affect relationship, a contradict relationship, a dependency relationship, an implement relationship, a similarity relationship, or any combination.

10. A system comprising:

a memory comprising;

a document structure instance that includes structure components;

instructions to;

receive a selected structure component from the structure components;

select a pre-configured core ontology hierarchy associated with the selected structure component, the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy including a plurality of classes, and a class definition relationships

generate a document specific ontology hierarchy based on the selected pre-configured core ontology, wherein the document specific ontology includes a subset of the classes included in the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy;

insert into the document specific ontology instance identifier that identifies the selected structure component; and

output the hierarchical graph; and

a processor configured to execute the instructions.

11. The system of claim 10, where the class definition relationship identifies a relationship between at least two of the classes.

12. The system of claim 10, where the class definition relationship comprises an affect relationship, a contradict relationship, a dependency relationship, an implement relationship, a similarity relationship, or any combination.

13. The system of claim 10, where the classes include a root class and a child class of the root class;

and

where the class definition relationship identifies a vertical relationship between the root class and the child class.

14. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

a glossary associated with the selected structure component, the glossary including permissible terms for a structure category associated with the selected structure component, the permissible terms including hierarchy parameters indicating parent or child relationships for the permissible terms; and

where the hierarchical graph is generated according to the hierarchy parameters of the permissible terms in the glossary.

15. The system of claim 10, where the selected structure component is a first selected structure component and where the hierarchical graph that is generated is a first hierarchical graph, and where the memory further comprises:

instructions to;

receive a second selected structure component from the structure components; and

generate a second hierarchical graph of said document structure instance corresponding to the second selected structure component.

16. The system of claim 10, where the memory further comprises:

instructions to;

modify the hierarchical graph to include instance identifiers of each respective structure component in the hierarchical graph.

17. The system of claim 10, where the memory further comprises:

instructions to

compare the hierarchical graph with a predetermined hierarchical graph to detect compatibility of the document structure instance with a predetermined format of a document comprising the document structure instance.

18. A method comprising:

accessing a pre-configured core ontology hierarchy that defines a hierarchy of classes and class definition relationships between at least some of the classes, where each of the classes of the ontology model is associated with a search term;

analyzing a first document structure instance against the ontology model to determine a first class associated with the first document structure instance by searching the first document structure instance for a first search term associated with the first class;

analyzing a second document structure instance against the ontology model to determine a second class associated with the second document structure instance by searching the second document structure instance for a second search term associated with the second class; and

analyzing, with a processor, the class definition relationships to determine whether the first class affects the second class

generating a document specific ontology hierarchy based on the selected pre-configured core ontology, wherein the document specific ontology includes a subset of the classes included in the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy and a first instance identifier that identifies the first class associated with the first document structure instance and a second instance identifier that identifies the second class associated with the second document structure instance; and

outputting the ontology model.

19. The method of claim 18, where the classes include a root class and a child class.