Systems and methods for analyzing document coverage

• US 9,575,961 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2014
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Northern Light Group, LLC
• Original Assignee: Northern Light Group, LLC
• Inventors: Seuss, C. David
• Primary Examiner(s): Desir, Pierre-Louis
• Assistant Examiner(s): WANG, YI SHENG
• Application Number:
  US14/472,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20160062986A1
• Time in Patent Office: 908 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/211 Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A system including a memory storing a meaning taxonomy is provided. The meaning taxonomy includes meaning loaded entities and associations between meaning loaded entities and syntactic structures. Each association links a meaning loaded entity to a syntactic structure. The system includes a processor coupled with the memory and components executable by the processor configured to receive content generated by a source, the content including syntactic structures, identify meaning loaded entities that are linked to the syntactic structures by associations, calculate a content summary indicating a level of coverage of the meaning loaded entities within the content, and provide a representation of the summary to an external entity.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

memory storing a meaning taxonomy including;

a plurality of meaning loaded entities; and

a plurality of associations between the plurality of meaning loaded entities and syntactic structures, each association of the plurality of associations linking at least one meaning loaded entity of the plurality of meaning loaded entities to at least one syntactic structure of a plurality of syntactic structures;

at least one processor in data communication with the memory; and

one or more components executable by the at least processor and collectively configured to;

receive first content generated by a first source, the first content including one or more first syntactic structures;

identify, based at least in part on the first source of the first content, one or more first meaning loaded entities of the plurality of meaning loaded entities that are linked to the one or more first syntactic structures by one or more first associations of the plurality of associations;

calculate a first content summary indicating a first level of coverage of the one or more first meaning loaded entities within the first content;

generate a first visual representation of the first content summary, the first visual representation comprising visual indicia that graphically represent a domain of the one or more first meaning loaded entities addressed in the first content and a level of coverage dedicated to each meaning loaded entity in the domain of meaning loaded entities addressed in the first content; and

provide the first visual representation of the first content summary to an external entity.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first content includes a set of documents including the one or more first syntactic structures and the first content summary includes a depth of coverage of the one or more first meaning loaded entities within the set of documents.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the set of documents includes at least one of white papers, presentations, news articles, press releases, and market research reports.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the first visual representation includes a radar chart presenting the depth of coverage.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more components are further collectively configured to:

receive second content generated by a second source, the second content including one or more second syntactic structures;

identify one or more second meaning loaded entities of the plurality of meaning loaded entities that are linked to the one or more second syntactic structures by one or more second associations of the plurality of associations;

calculate a second content summary indicating a second level of coverage of the one or more second meaning loaded entities within the second content; and

provide a comparative representation that combines the first visual representation and a second representation of the second content summary to the external entity.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the first source and the second source are distinct entities.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the first content summary and the second content summary indicate a level of coverage of at least one common meaning loaded entity extracted from the first content and the second content.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more first syntactic structures and the one or more second syntactic structures share no common syntactic structures.

9. A method implemented using a computer system including memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory, the method comprising:

storing, in the memory, a meaning taxonomy including;

a plurality of meaning loaded entities; and

a plurality of associations between the plurality of meaning loaded entities and syntactic structures, each association of the plurality of associations linking at least one meaning loaded entity of the plurality of meaning loaded entities to at least one syntactic structure of a plurality of syntactic structures;

receiving first content generated by a first source, the first content including one or more first syntactic structures;

identifying, based at least in part on the first source of the first content, one or more first meaning loaded entities of the plurality of meaning loaded entities that are linked to the one or more first syntactic structures by one or more first associations of the plurality of associations;

calculating a first content summary indicating a first level of coverage of the one or more first meaning loaded entities within the first content;

generating, by the at least one processor, a first visual representation of the first content summary, the first visual representation comprising visual indicia that graphically represent a domain of the one or more meaning loaded entities addressed in the first content and a level of coverage dedicated to each meaning loaded entity; and

providing the first visual representation of the first content summary to an external entity.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein receiving the first content includes receiving a set of documents including the one or more syntactic structures and calculating the first content summary includes calculating a depth of coverage of the one or more first meaning loaded entities within the set of documents.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving the set of documents includes receiving at least one of white papers, presentations, news articles, press releases, and market research reports.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the first visual representation includes providing a radar chart presenting the depth of coverage.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving second content generated by a second source, the second content including one or more second syntactic structures;

identifying one or more second meaning loaded entities of the plurality of meaning loaded entities that are linked to the one or more second syntactic structures by one or more second associations of the plurality of associations;

calculating a second content summary indicating a second level of coverage of the one or more second meaning loaded entities within the second content; and

providing a comparative representation that combines the first visual representation and a second representation of the second content summary to the external entity.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein calculating the second content summary includes calculating a second content summary that indicates a level of coverage of at least one common meaning loaded entity extracted from the first content and the second content.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein identifying the one or more second meaning loaded entities includes identifying one or more second meaning loaded entities that are linked to one or more second syntactic structures that share no common syntactic structures with the one or more first syntactic structures.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing sequences of instruction for analyzing coverage of concepts within content, the sequences of instruction including computer executable instructions that instruct at least one processor to:

store, in a memory in data communication with the at least one processor, a meaning taxonomy including;

a plurality of meaning loaded entities; and

a plurality of associations between the plurality of meaning loaded entities and syntactic structures, each association of the plurality of associations linking at least one meaning loaded entity of the plurality of meaning loaded entities to at least one syntactic structure of a plurality of syntactic structures;

receive first content generated by a first source, the first content including one or more first syntactic structures;

identify, based at least in part on the first source of the first content, one or more first meaning loaded entities of the plurality of meaning loaded entities that are linked to the one or more first syntactic structures by one or more first associations of the plurality of associations;

calculate a first content summary indicating a first level of coverage of the one or more first meaning loaded entities within the first content; and

generate a first visual representation of the first content summary, the first visual representation comprising visual indicia that graphically represent a domain of the first one or more meaning loaded entities in the first content and a level of coverage dedicated to each meaning loaded entity; and

provide the first visual representation of the first content summary to an external entity.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the first content includes a set of documents including the one or more syntactic structures and the first content summary includes a depth of coverage of the one or more first meaning loaded entities within the set of documents.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the set of documents includes at least one of white papers, presentations, news articles, press releases, and market research reports.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the first representation includes a radar chart presenting the depth of coverage.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions further instruct the at least one processor to:

receive second content generated by a second source, the second content including one or more second syntactic structures;

identify one or more second meaning loaded entities of the plurality of meaning loaded entities that are linked to the one or more second syntactic structures by one or more second associations of the plurality of associations;

calculate a second content summary indicating a second level of coverage of the one or more second meaning loaded entities within the second content; and

provide a comparative representation that combines the first visual representation and a second representation of the second content summary to the external entity.