Interactive addition of semantic concepts to a document

• US 10,642,937 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2017
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• 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:
  US15/431,399
• Publication Number:
  US 20170169010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,177 Days
• 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 system comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory for storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, performs a method for adding semantic concepts to a document, the method comprising;

parsing the document to generate a set of terms;

evaluating the set of terms to identify a first unique term in the document, wherein the evaluating comprises at least one of comparing the set of terms to a set of predefined terms and identifying one or more proper names in the set of terms;

generating a query to identify whether the first unique term is associated with one or more semantic concepts;

determining, based on the query, the first unique term is not associated with a semantic concept;

providing an option to create a new semantic concept for the first unique term;

receiving a selection to create the new semantic concept;

receiving the new semantic concept;

associating the new semantic concept with the first unique term; and

storing the new semantic concept, such that an indication of the new semantic concept is visible in the document after the association.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the new semantic concept is at least one of a URL and a URN.

3. The system of claim 1, the method further comprising receiving input via a document creation interface associated with the document, wherein the input corresponds to one or more portions of the document, and wherein the option to create a new semantic concept is presented to a user via the document creation interface.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein associating the new semantic concept comprises annotating the first unique term with an indication of the new semantic concept.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein identifying the first unique term comprises evaluating the document in real-time as the document is authored by a user.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein identifying the first unique term comprises evaluating the document in response to at least one of an on-demand request by a user and an elapse of a period of time.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein storing the new semantic concept comprises adding the new semantic concept to a data store, such that the new semantic concept will appear in a set of semantic concepts for the first unique term when the first unique term is subsequently identified in one or more documents.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first unique term is or refers to a noun.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the first unique term is not associated with a sematic concept comprises using the query to search a database of semantic concepts.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the first unique term is not associated with a sematic concept comprises using the query to search a database of semantic concepts.

11. A method for adding semantic concepts to a document, the method comprising:

parsing the document to generate a set of terms;

evaluating the set of terms to identify a first unique term in the document, wherein the evaluating comprises at least one of comparing the set of terms to a set of predefined terms and identifying one or more proper names in the set of terms;

generating a query to identify whether the first unique term is associated with one or more semantic concepts;

determining, based on the query, the first unique term is not associated with a semantic concept;

providing an option to create a new semantic concept for the first unique term;

receiving a selection to create the new semantic concept;

receiving the new semantic concept;

associating the new semantic concept with the first unique term; and

storing the new semantic concept, such that an indication of the new semantic concept is visible in the document after the association.

12. The method of claim 11, the method further comprising receiving input via a document creation interface associated with the document, wherein the input corresponds to one or more portions of the document, and wherein the option to create a new semantic concept is presented to a user via the document creation interface.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein determining the first unique term is not associated with a semantic concept comprises:

generating a set of queries; and

determining the set of queries generated no semantic concepts associated with the first unique term.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein associating the new semantic concept comprises annotating the first unique term with an indication of the new semantic concept.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein identifying the first unique term comprises evaluating the document in real-time as the document is authored by a user.

16. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory for storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, performs a method for translating an expression, the method comprising;

identifying a first unique term in a document authored by a user;

determining a set of semantic topics associated with the first unique term;

creating a notification indicative of the set of semantic topics;

receiving a user selection of a semantic topic in the set of semantic topics;

determining the selected semantic topic is associated with a set of semantic concepts associated with the first unique term;

providing to the user a set of options, wherein the set of options comprises the set of semantic concepts and an option to create a new semantic concept for the first unique term;

receiving a selection to create the new semantic concept;

receiving the new semantic concept;

associating the new semantic concept with the first unique term; and

storing the new semantic concept, such that an indication of the new semantic concept is visible in the document after the association.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein identifying the first unique term comprises:

generating a set of queries;

submitting the set of queries to one or more data stores of semantic concepts; and

receiving the set of options from the one or more data stores of semantic concepts.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein a document creation interface includes into the set of options the option to create a new semantic concept for the first unique term, and wherein the document creation interface presents the set of options to a user.

19. The system of claim 16, the method further comprising:

determining a set of semantic topics associated with the first unique term;

creating a notification indicative of the set of semantic topics;

receiving a user selection of a semantic topic in the set of semantic topics;

determining the set of semantic concepts is associated with the selected semantic topic; and

including the selected of set semantic concepts in the set of options.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein storing the new semantic concept comprises adding the new semantic concept to a data store, such that the new semantic concept will appear in a set of semantic concepts for the first unique term when the first unique term is subsequently identified in one or more documents.