Interactive addition of semantic concepts to a document

• US 9,582,503 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2010
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Hurst, Matthew Francis
• Primary Examiner(s): MACKES, KRIS E
• Application Number:
  US12/893,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20120078945A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,344 Days
• Field of Search: 704/9, 707/741, 707/769
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3322 using system suggestions G06F16/3325 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3334 Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for interactively associating a semantic concept with a unique term that is input by a user. As the user is creating a document and/or once the user has completed a draft of the document, the document is parsed to identify unique terms (e.g., persons, places, things, services, etc.) in the document. When a unique term is identified, a query is generated to locate one or more semantic concepts (e.g., URLs, URNs, or other identifiers, for example) that are associated with the identified unique term and a notification indicative of the results is generated. From this notification, the user can select whether to associate the unique term with any and/or all of the located semantic concepts. In this way, supplemental content may be added to a document that the user is creating, for example.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

identifying a first unique term in a document authored by a user, wherein the document is part of a document corpus and the first unique term is identified by the frequency of use of the first unique term in the document corpus;

providing to the user a first notification indicating multiple semantic concepts associated with the first unique term;

receiving a selection, by the user, of a first semantic concept in the multiple semantic concepts;

in response to receiving the selection, generating a first query to identify a set of semantic concepts comprising the first semantic concept associated with the first unique term and a second semantic concept associated with the first unique term;

providing, for display to the user, a second notification indicative of the set of semantic concepts comprising the first semantic concept and the second semantic concept, the first unique term not comprising the first semantic concept and not comprising the second semantic concept;

receiving a selection, by the user, of the first semantic concept in the set of semantic concepts but not the second semantic concept in the set of semantic concepts; and

responsive to the receiving, associating the first semantic concept but not the second semantic concept with the first unique term as an annotation to the first unique term such that the first unique term remains visible in the document after the associating,

at least some of the method implemented at least in part via a processing unit.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising:

presenting, after the associating, the annotation responsive to receiving a selection of the first unique term.

3. The method of claim 1, the identifying comprising:

identifying a number of occurrences of the first unique term within a network below a threshold number of occurrences.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising:

identifying a second unique term in the document;

generating a second query based upon the second unique term;

providing, for display to the user, a second notification indicating that no semantic concepts in a database are associated with the second unique term; and

receiving a new semantic concept from the user to associate with the second unique term.

5. The method of claim 4, comprising:

associating the new semantic concept with the second unique term as an annotation to the second unique term.

6. The method of claim 1, the first semantic concept corresponding to a link to a webpage comprising content associated with the first unique term, the second semantic concept corresponding to a second link to a second webpage comprising content associated with the first unique term.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising:

distinguishing the first unique term from other terms in the document upon the associating.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising:

identifying at least two semantic topics associated with the first unique term, respective semantic topics associated with a different semantic concept;

providing, for display to the user, a second notification indicative of the at least two semantic topics; and

receiving a user selection of a first semantic topic of the at least two semantic topics in response to the second notification.

9. A system, comprising:

one or more processing units; and

memory comprising instructions that when executed by at least some of the one or more processing units perform a method, comprising;

identifying a first unique term in a document authored by a user, wherein the document is part of a document corpus and the first unique term is identified by the frequency of use of the first unique term in the document corpus;

providing to the user a first notification indicating multiple semantic concepts associated with the first unique term;

receiving a selection, by the user, of a first semantic concept in the multiple semantic concepts;

in response to receiving the selection, generating a first query to identify a set of semantic concepts comprising the first semantic concept associated with the first unique term and a second semantic concept associated with the first unique term, the first semantic concept comprising a link to a first webpage comprising content associated with the first unique term;

providing, for display to the user, a second notification indicative of the set of semantic concepts comprising the first semantic concept and the second semantic concept, the first unique term not comprising the first semantic concept and not comprising the second semantic concept;

receiving a selection, by the user, of the link in the set of semantic concepts but not the second semantic concept in the set of semantic concepts; and

responsive to the receiving, associating the link but not the second semantic concept with the first unique term as an annotation to the first unique term such that the first unique term becomes a textual representation of the link and remains visible in the document after the associating.

10. The system of claim 9, the method comprising:

presenting, after the associating, the annotation responsive to receiving an indication of hovering over the first unique term.

11. The system of claim 9, the method comprising:

distinguishing the first unique term from other terms in the document upon the associating.

12. The system of claim 9, the method comprising:

providing for display to the user a document creation interface, the document creation interface configured to provide for display of the document and the first notification.

13. A computer-readable storage device comprising instructions, which when executed at least in part via a processing unit perform a method, comprising:

identifying a first unique term in a document authored by a user, wherein the document is part of a document corpus and the first unique term is identified by the frequency of use of the first unique term in the document corpus;

providing to the user a first notification indicating multiple semantic concepts associated with the first unique term;

receiving a selection, by the user, of a first semantic concept in the multiple semantic concepts;

in response to receiving the selection, generating a first query to identify a set of semantic concepts comprising the first semantic concept associated with the first unique term and a second semantic concept associated with the first unique term;

providing, for display to the user, a second notification indicative of the set of semantic concepts comprising the first semantic concept and the second semantic concept, the first unique term not comprising the first semantic concept and not comprising the second semantic concept;

receiving a selection, by the user, of the first semantic concept in the set of semantic concepts; and

responsive to the receiving, associating the first semantic concept with the first unique term as an annotation to the first unique term such that the first unique term remains visible in the document after the associating.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, the identifying comprising:

identifying the first unique term in real-time as the document is authored by the user.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, the first semantic concept corresponding to a link to a webpage comprising content associated with the first unique term, the associating comprising:

associating the link with the first unique term such that the first unique term becomes a textual representation of the link.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, the first semantic concept corresponding to a link to a webpage comprising content associated with the first unique term, the associating comprising:

associating the link with the first unique term such that user engagement with the first unique term triggers the content to be presented.

17. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, the first semantic concept corresponding to a link to a webpage comprising content associated with the first unique term.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, the webpage comprising a blog.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, the second semantic concept different than the first semantic concept.