Extendable Collaborative Correction Framework

• US 20100274615A1
• Filed: 04/22/2009
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Drory, Tal, Walach, Eugeniusz, Belinsky, Eran
• Application Number:
  US12/427,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20100274615A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A novel and useful system and method for a collaborative correction framework that allows external applications to interface to it in a manner that will serve specific correction goals. The framework is extendable, enabling registration of additional authorized applications to the framework. These additional registered applications are then available to other applications accessing the framework. The collaborative correction system maintains profiles for both corrective tasks and users. When assigning a task to a user the collaborative correction system finds an appropriate match by comparing their respective profiles.

Claims

1. A computer system for collaborative correction of a digital representation, comprising:

an analysis subsystem for execution on a processor in said computer system for retrieving said digital representation from a storage subsystem, perform an initial recognition of said digital representation and store said initial recognition to said storage subsystem;

a correction subsystem operative for execution on a processor in said computer system for enabling one or more users of said computer system to correct said initial recognition by retrieving said digital representation and said initial recognition from a storage subsystem, displaying said digital representation and said initial recognition on one or more display devices, accepting input from an alpha-numeric input device and storing said input on said storage subsystem; and

an extendable collaborative correction framework for execution on a processor in said computer system and operative to build one or more applications interacting with said analysis subsystem and said correction subsystem.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said digital representation is from the group consisting of a text document, an image and an audio recording.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said recognition comprises one or more text characters describing said digital representation.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said application comprises a computer program product.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said extendable collaborative correction framework comprises:

a data definition subsystem operative to characterize collaborative correction information available to said one or more applications interacting with said extendable collaborative correction framework;

a result requirement subsystem operative to define information to be returned by said application interacting with said extendable collaborative correction framework;

an environment subsystem operative to define one or more rules to be used by said application interacting with said extendable collaborative correction framework; and

an application program interface subsystem operative to couple said application interacting with said extendable collaborative correction framework with said data definition subsystem, said result requirement subsystem and said environment subsystem.

6. The extendable collaborative correction framework according to claim 5, wherein said information available to said one or more applications interacting with said extendable collaborative correction framework is from the group consisting of user data and corrected material data.

7. The extendable collaborative correction framework according to claim 5, wherein said information to be returned by said application interacting with said extendable collaborative correction framework is from the group consisting of corrected data, correction results, corrected metadata and correction performance statistics.

8. The extendable collaborative correction framework according to claim 5, wherein said one or more defined rules to be used by said application interacting with said extendable collaborative correction framework is from the group consisting of profile matching rules, application evaluation rules, content evaluation rules and framework management rules.

9. The extendable collaborative correction framework according to claim 5, wherein said application program interface comprises:

an application registry component operative to incorporate said one or more applications in said collaborative correction framework;

a user management component operative to maintain a profile for one or more users of said collaborative correction framework;

a task management component operative to maintain a profile for one or more tasks of said collaborative correction framework; and

a task allocation component operative to assign one or more of said tasks to one or more of said users.

10. The application program interface according to claim 9, wherein said task allocation component identifies a task to be assigned to a user by locating a profile associated with said task in accordance with a profile associated with said user.

11. An application program interface that facilitates extending a collaborative correction framework, comprising:

an application registry component stored on a memory storage device coupled to said collaborative correction framework, said application registry component for integrating one or more computer executable applications;

a user management component for execution on a processor for retrieving a user profile from a memory storage device, retrieving a result of a completed corrective task associated with said user profile from said memory storage device, updating said user profile with said retrieved result and storing said updated user profile to said memory storage device;

a task management component for execution on a processor for retrieving a task from a memory storage device, calculating a task profile for said retrieved task and storing said task profile to said memory storage device; and

a task allocation component for execution on a processor for loading a user profile from said memory storage device, loading one or more task profiles from said memory storage device and identifying one of said loaded task profiles as being in accordance with said loaded user profile to said collaborative correction framework.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein said user profile comprises a feature vector representing observed characteristics of a user associated with said user profile.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein said task profile comprises a feature vector representing characteristics of a digital representation to be corrected

14. A method for collaborative correction of a digital representation, the method comprising the steps of:

retrieving a user profile associated with a user performing said collaborative correction;

assigning one or more corrective tasks to be performed by said user;

evaluating each result of said one or more assigned corrective tasks performed by said user in a first computer process, and providing each said evaluated result to a second computer process; and

updating said retrieved profile with each said evaluated result in said second computer process.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein said digital representation is from the group consisting of a text document, an image and an audio recording.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein said recognition comprises one or more text characters describing said digital representation.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein a profile associated with each said assigned corrective task is in accordance with said retrieved profile.

18. A method for collaborative correction of a digital representation, the method comprising the steps of:

retrieving from a memory storage a user profile associated with a user performing said collaborative correction;

matching one or more task profiles associated with one or more corrective tasks to said retrieved user profile in a first computer process and providing said one or more task profiles and said user profile to a second computer process;

assigning said one or more matched corrective tasks to said user associated with said retrieved user profile;

evaluating each result of said one or more assigned corrective tasks performed by said user in said second computer process, and providing each said result to a third computer process; and

updating said user profile with each said evaluated result in said third computer process.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein said digital representation is from the group consisting of a text document, an image and an audio recording.

20. The method according to claim 18, wherein said recognition comprises one or more text characters describing said digital representation.

21. The method according to claim 18, wherein said user profile comprises a feature vector representing observed characteristics of said user.

22. The method according to claim 18, wherein said task profile comprises a feature vector representing characteristics of said digital representation to be corrected.

23. A computer program product collaborative correction of a digital representation, the computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer usable code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising;

computer usable code configured for retrieving a user profile associated with a user performing said collaborative correction;

computer usable code configured for matching one or more task profiles associated with a corrective task to said retrieved user profile in a first computer process and providing said one or more task profiles and said user profile to a second computer process;

computer usable code configured for assigning said one or more matched corrective tasks to said user associated with said retrieved user profile;

computer usable code configured for evaluating the result of each said assigned corrective task performed by said user in said second computer process, and providing each said result to a third computer process; and

computer usable code configured for updating said user profile with each said evaluated result in said third computer process.

24. The computer program product according to claim 23, wherein said digital representation is from the group consisting of a text document, an image and an audio recording.

25. The computer program product according to claim 23, wherein said recognition comprises one or more text characters describing said digital representation.