GENERATING VISUALIZATIONS OF A DISPLAY GROUP OF TAGS REPRESENTING CONTENT INSTANCES IN OBJECTS SATISFYING A SEARCH CRITERIA

• US 20150142791A1
• Filed: 12/03/2014
• Published: 05/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chitiveli, Srinivas V., Emanuel, Barton W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,372,919 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/730
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

Provided are a computer program product, method, and system for rendering search results. A search request is received having a search criteria to perform with respect to objects having content instances. A determination is made of the objects having qualifying content instances that satisfy the search criteria, an attribute value of the qualifying content instances for a specified attribute, and appearance settings for the qualifying content instances based on the determined attribute values. The appearance settings vary based on the attribute values. Tags are generated indicating the content instances and appearance settings for the content instances. A visualization of the tags in a display group are generated to provide visualization of the qualifying content instances in the objects according to the appearance settings, wherein visualizations of the tags is varied based on the determined appearance settings.

Claims

1. A computer program product for rendering search results, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein that executes to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a search request having a search criteria to perform with respect to objects having content instances;

determining the objects having qualifying content instances that satisfy the search criteria;

determining an attribute value of the qualifying content instances for a specified attribute;

determining appearance settings for the qualifying content instances based on the determined attribute values, wherein the appearance settings vary based on the attribute values;

generating tags indicating the content instances and appearance settings for the content instances; and

generating a visualization of the tags in a display group to provide visualization of the qualifying content instances in the objects according to the appearance settings, wherein visualizations of the tags is varied based on the determined appearance settings.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein each of the visualized tags includes a link to information on the object having the qualifying content instance visualized by the tag.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the tags are visualized in a word cloud.

4. The computer program product of claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating for each of a plurality of objects a visualization of a plurality of word clouds, wherein the word clouds generated for one object provide appearance settings for the tags based on different attributes.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the attribute used to vary the appearance of the tags is a member of a group of attributes consisting of:

a frequency of the qualifying content instances in the object;

a correlation of the qualifying content instances to the search criteria;

a degree to which the qualifying content instance makes the object different from content instances in other objects;

a correlation of the qualifying content instance to an aggregation of search requests; and

an extent to which the qualifying content instance comprises a proper name.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein generating the visualization comprises displaying for each object:

a first cloud displaying tags based on a correlation of the qualifying content instances to the search criteria, wherein the appearance settings of the tags vary based on a strength of the correlation of the qualifying content instances to the search criteria;

a second cloud displaying tags based on a frequency of an occurrence of the qualifying content instances in the object, wherein the appearance settings of the tags vary based on the frequency of the occurrences of qualifying content instances in the object; and

a third cloud including tags of qualifying content instances that make the object different from the qualifying content instances in other of the objects, wherein the appearance settings of the qualifying content instances vary based on a strength of the extent to which the qualifying content instances makes the object different from the other objects having qualifying content instances.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

performing analytics on the determined objects to determine annotations for the qualifying content instances of the objects; and

determining the objects having annotations of an annotation type, wherein the specified attribute comprises the annotation type, and wherein the generated tags are for the qualifying content instances having annotation values corresponding to the annotation type, wherein the appearance settings of the tags vary based on the annotation of the annotation type associated with the qualifying content instances.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying a plurality of word clouds for different annotation types, wherein each of the word clouds is associated with one of the annotation types and displays tags for the qualifying content instances, in at least one of the objects, associated with the annotation of the annotation type of the word cloud.

11. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the tags are visualized in a word cloud.

9. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code executed by the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising;

receiving a search request having a search criteria to perform with respect to objects having content instances;

determining the objects having qualifying content instances that satisfy the search criteria;

determining an attribute value of the qualifying content instances for a specified attribute;

determining appearance settings for the qualifying content instances based on the determined attribute values, wherein the appearance settings vary based on the attribute values;

generating tags indicating the content instances and appearance settings for the content instances; and

generating a visualization of the tags in a display group to provide visualization of the qualifying content instances in the objects according to the appearance settings, wherein visualizations of the tags is varied based on the determined appearance settings.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein each of the visualized tags includes a link to information on the object having the qualifying content instance visualized by the tag.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating for each of a plurality of objects a visualization of a plurality of word clouds, wherein the word clouds generated for one object provide appearance settings for the tags based on different attributes.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

performing analytics on the determined objects to determine annotations for the qualifying content instances of the objects; and

determining the objects having annotations of an annotation type, wherein the specified attribute comprises the annotation type, and wherein the generated tags are for the qualifying content instances having annotation values corresponding to the annotation type, wherein the appearance settings of the tags vary based on the annotation of the annotation type associated with the qualifying content instances.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying a plurality of word clouds for different annotation types, wherein each of the word clouds is associated with one of the annotation types and displays tags for the qualifying content instances, in at least one of the objects, associated with the annotation of the annotation type of the word cloud.

15. A method for rendering search results in a computer system, comprising:

receiving a search request having a search criteria to perform with respect to objects in a computer readable storage medium having content instances;

determining the objects having qualifying content instances that satisfy the search criteria;

determining an attribute value of the qualifying content instances for a specified attribute;

determining appearance settings for the qualifying content instances based on the determined attribute values, wherein the appearance settings vary based on the attribute values;

generating tags indicating the content instances and appearance settings for the content instances; and

generating a visualization of the tags in a display group to provide visualization of the qualifying content instances in the objects according to the appearance settings, wherein visualizations of the tags is varied based on the determined appearance settings.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein each of the visualized tags includes a link to information on the object having the qualifying content instance visualized by the tag.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the tags are visualized in a word cloud.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprise:

generating for each of a plurality of objects a visualization of a plurality of word clouds, wherein the word clouds generated for one object provide appearance settings for the tags based on different attributes.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein generating the visualization comprises displaying for each object:

a first cloud displaying tags based on a correlation of the qualifying content instances to the search criteria, wherein the appearance settings of the tags vary based on a strength of the correlation of the qualifying content instances to the search criteria;

a second cloud displaying tags based on a frequency of an occurrence of the qualifying content instances in the object, wherein the appearance settings of the tags vary based on the frequency of the occurrences of qualifying content instances in the object; and

a third cloud including tags of qualifying content instances that make the object different from the qualifying content instances in other of the objects, wherein the appearance settings of the qualifying content instances vary based on a strength of the extent to which the qualifying content instances makes the object different from the other objects having qualifying content instances.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

performing analytics on the determined objects to determine annotations for the qualifying content instances of the objects; and

determining the objects having annotations of an annotation type, wherein the specified attribute comprises the annotation type, and wherein the generated tags are for the qualifying content instances having annotation values corresponding to the annotation type, wherein the appearance settings of the tags vary based on the annotation of the annotation type associated with the qualifying content instances.