INTEREST HIGHLIGHT AND RECOMMENDATION BASED ON INTERACTION IN LONG TEXT READING

• US 20170249296A1
• Filed: 02/29/2016
• Published: 08/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gong, Min, Ni, Yuan, Yan, Junchi, Zhu, Hui J.
• Granted Patent: US 10,691,893 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for recommending terms in a document based on a specified interaction with the document. In one embodiment, the method comprises displaying a document on a device; detecting a specified interaction with the document displayed on the device; identifying text associated with the specified interaction with the document displayed on the device; performing object recognition with the identified text to recognize one or more defined interested objects; and recommending terms in the document based on the recognized defined interested objects. In an embodiment, the object recognition includes identifying one or more objects from the text, and performing the object recognition with these objects to recognize the one or more interested objects. In an embodiment, one or more terms are extracted from the text, and these terms are partitioned to identify the one or more objects from the text.

Claims

1. A method for recommending terms in a document based on a specified interaction with the document, the method comprising:

displaying a document on a device;

detecting a specified interaction with the document displayed on the device;

identifying text associated with the specified interaction with the document displayed on the device;

performing object recognition with the identified text to recognize one or more defined interested objects; and

recommending terms in the document based on the recognized defined interested objects.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the performing object recognition includes:

identifying one or more objects from the identified text; and

performing the object recognition with the one of more identified objects from the identified text to recognize the one or more defined interested objects to recommend to the user.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the identifying one or more objects from the identified text includes:

extracting one or more terms from the identified text; and

partitioning the one or more extracted terms to identify said one or more objects from the identified text.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the performing object recognition includes comparing said identified one or more objects to a pre-identified group of interested objects to determine if any one or more of the interested objects of the pre-identified group of interested objects is present in the identified text.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the performing object recognition includes:

filtering said identified one or more objects from the identified text with predetermined interested objects to identify one or more of the predetermined interested objects to recommend to the user.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined interested objects include a first set of interested objects derived from defined actions of a specified user, and a second set of interested objects obtained from a specified group of people.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the filtering said identified one or more objects from the identified text includes:

maintaining a list of a group of the predetermined interested objects; and

the user managing said list by adding one or more of the predetermined interested objects to the list, and removing one or more of the predetermined interested objects from the list.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifying text associated with the specified interaction with the document displayed on the device includes:

using the specified interaction of the user with the specified device to identify an area of the document; and

selecting text in said area of the document.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the specified interaction with the device is a user touching the display of the document on a display screen of the device.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein:

a user touching the display of the document on a display screen of the device includes the user touching an area of the display of the document; and

the identified area of the document is a specified area around said touched area.

11. A system for recommending terms in a document based on a specified interaction with the document, wherein the document is shown on a display screen of a device, the system comprising:

a text identifier for detecting a specified interaction with the document displayed on the device, and identifying text associated with the specified interaction with the document displayed on the device; and

an object recognizer for performing object recognition with the identified text to recognize one or more defined interested objects, and recommending terms in the document based on the recognized defined interested objects.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the text identifier includes:

a touched term identifier to identify said text in the document associated with the specified interaction with the document displayed in the device based on detecting auser touching the display of the document on the device.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein the object recognizer filters recognized said one or more defined interested objects with predetermined interested objects to identify one or more of the predetermined interested objects to recommend to the user.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the object recognizer filters said recognized one or more defined interested objects by using an individual historical IO database storing interested objects derived from defined actions of a user, and hierarchical context indexed interested objects from a specified group of people.

15. The system according to claim 11, further comprising:

a display manager to form a display of a list of a group of the defined interested objects; and

a gesture based vector manager for managing the display of the list of a group of the defined interested objects by adding one or more of the defined interested objects to the list, and removing one or more of the defined interested objects from the list based on specified detected.

16. An article of manufacture comprising:

at least one tangible computer readable medium having computer readable program code logic tangibly embodied therein to recommend terms in a document based on a specified interaction with the document, the computer readable program code logic, when executing, performing the following;

displaying a document on a device;

detecting a specified interaction with the document displayed on the device;

identifying text associated with the specified interaction with the document displayed on the device;

performing object recognition with the identified text to recognize one or more defined interested objects; and

recommending terms in the document based on the recognized defined interested objects.

17. The article of manufacture according to claim 16, wherein the performing object recognition includes:

identifying one or more objects from the identified text; and

performing the object recognition with the one or more identified objects from the identified text defined to recognize the one or more interested objects.

18. The article of manufacture according to claim 16, wherein the performing object recognition includes:

filtering said identified one or more objects from the identified text with predetermined interested objects to identify one or more of the predetermined interested objects to recommend to the user.

19. The article of manufacture according to claim 18, wherein the filtering said identified one or more objects identified from the identified text includes:

maintaining a list of a group of the predetermined interested objects; and

managing said list by adding one or more of the predetermined interested objects to the list, and removing one or more of the predetermined interested objects from the list based on specified, detected gestures.

20. The article of manufacture according to claim 16, wherein the specified interaction with the document displayed on the device is user touching the display of the document on a display screen of the device, and the identifying text associated with the specific interaction with the document displayed in the device includes:

using the user touching the display of the document on the display screen of the device to identify an area of the document; and

selecting text in said area of the document.