573results about "Metadata text retrieval" patented technology

A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality of the database information without any substantial management by the website owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form of both comments and ratings about which natural-language terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are further preferred to be evaluative and approving.

A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality of the database information without any substantial management by the website owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form of both comments and ratings about which natural-language terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are further preferred to be evaluative and approving. Also, a system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user knowledge about sales related subjects. Described is an Internet-based system for assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of sales related subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality of the database information without any substantial management by the website owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form of both comments and ratings of which sales related subjects best provide assistance in completing a sale.

Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.

A processing system for retrieving interrelated documents is described. The system comprises a document repository for storing a plurality of documents, a metadata repository for storing a plurality of metadata elements to represent relations between the documents, and a sociological analysis engine to identify relationships between the documents using the metadata elements from the metadata repository.

A set of general criteria have been defined to improve the efficacy of a tagging system, and have been applied to present collaborative tag suggestions to a user. The collaborative tag suggestions are based on a goodness measure for tags derived from collective user authorities to combat spam. The goodness measure is iteratively adjusted by a reward-penalty algorithm during tag selection. The collaborative tag suggestions can also incorporate other sources of tags, e.g., content-based auto-generated tags.

A system and method for communication and collaboration that uses a generalized annotation based mechanism such that items can be shared amongst users and both items and users can be searched and ranked based on existing Information Retrieval ranking techniques. A new method is introduced for clustering users and items simultaneously on the basis of category contexts. These mechanisms are leveraged to create a mechanism that allows for publishing and subscribing items based on context.

The present invention relates to a system (10) for generating and maintaining virtual and physical metadata layers in a MetaBase metadata repository (110b) in order to simplify and optimize the retrieval of data from a plurality of disparate information sources (130a-130c). The system stores in a physical metadata layer of a MetaBase metadata repository a plurality of physical metadata elements, wherein each one of the physical metadata elements corresponds to the metadata elements in the plurality of information sources. Logical metadata elements are stored in the virtual metadata layer and are linked to the physical metadata elements in order to maintain the relationships therebetween. By maintaining the relationships between the physical metadata elements, users can initiate a data query request for data corresponding to a logical metadata element, and the system is configurated to retrieve the desired data from the relevant information sources, even in the event that relevant information sources maintain the data in fields having different data field names, that the information sources employ incompatible data formats, and that the relevant information sources employ different query languages.

The present invention is directed towards a platform for user discovery. A method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a request from a user to initiate a search for content items previously indexed and associated with one or more tags by a community of users and identifying a set of preliminary tags from an index of tags defined by the community, where each tag is associated with one or more content items. Input is received from the user of at least one tag or keyword to update a current set of selected tags and keywords and identify a result set of content items having associated tags and keywords matching the current set of selected tags and keywords. The result set of content items is presented along with an intermediate set of tags to serve as a potential starting point for refining the search based on the tags associated with each of the content items in the result set.

A method of social networking is disclosed. The method displays a user name on a web page. Further, the method receives an input that selects the user name. The method displays a display cloud, for the user name that is selected, that illustrates at least a subset of a personal cloud of the user associated with the user name. Furthermore, multi-level tagging for content can be used in order to generate tag clouds.

Queries which may be expressed in natural language are processed by: decoding a query into one or more semantically meaningful query elements;

• • accessing data storage, which data storage includes at least one annotation element and one or more corresponding data entries: identifying annotation elements in accordance with the semantically meaningful query elements; and retrieving at least one data entry corresponding to each identified annotation element.

Aggregating a content item with an event is disclosed. An event is created based on a user-provided or a feed sourced content item. The user-provided or feed sourced content item is aggregated with the event. The user-provided or feed sourced content item is identified using a query to one or more repositories.

There is disclosed a system and method for using a knowledge representation to provide relevant information based on environmental inputs. In an embodiment, the system and method considers environmental information from members in a crowd to generate a pool of interests based on the semantic relevance concepts associated with those interests. The most prominent concepts of interest may then be the basis for presenting content to the crowd as a whole. In another embodiment, environmental inputs and other surrounding inputs are considered as a user context. The concepts may be identified as relevant from the environmental context and used to present information relevant to the user given his or her surroundings.

A system and method for communication and collaboration that uses a generalized annotation based mechanism such that items can be shared amongst users and both items and users can be searched and ranked based on existing Information Retrieval ranking techniques. A new method is introduced for clustering users and items simultaneously on the basis of category contexts. These mechanisms are leveraged to create a mechanism that allows for publishing and subscribing items based on context.

The invention relates to a system and method for parsing and/or exporting one or more multi-relational ontologies. The system may apply a set of export constraints to one or more master ontologies to produce a redacted data subset. The redacted data subset may then be exported to a specified location or application.

A method and apparatus are described for providing a user with contextually relevant content from a library of information. According to one embodiment of the present invention, metadata tagged information about a user's work profile and working context, and content within a library of information are read. The metadata tagged information about content within the library of information to metadata tagged information about one or more of the user's work profile, the user's working context, or other content within the library of information is matched using one or more programmable rules. A rank ordered set of the most contextually relevant content from the library of information is then delivered to the user based on the matching of the metadata tagged information.

A search engine for retrieving documents from a database comprising a semantic document editor that is operable to allow a user to edit an existing document by creating one or more searchable compound word that contains information contextually relevant to the contents of the document. The editor is operable to associate the one or more created compound words with the document to produce an enhanced document having the compounds words associated therewith. A database is provided for storing a plurality of enhanced documents and a semantic query editor is provided that is operable to enable a searcher to address the database of enhanced documents with a query. The query editor is operable to receive the query and convert it into one or more compound search word that contains contextually relevant information. A search module is provided that is operable to receive the searchable compound words and to locate the relevant enhanced documents that have compound words associated with the document matching the searchable compound words. An output means is provided for presenting any located documents to the searcher.

Disclosed herein is a method comprising presenting to a user a tag cloud at level n; wherein the tag cloud comprises an icon located next to each tag in the tag cloud; selecting an icon from the tag cloud at level n; and presenting to the user a tag cloud at level n+1, wherein the tag cloud comprises an icon located next to each tag in the tag cloud at level n+1; wherein the tag cloud at level n+1 comprises a query that comprises the users tag selection from level n in addition to a set of tags from level n+1 that comprise subject matter related to the tag selected at level n; and wherein n is an integer greater than zero.

Methods, machine readable media and apparatuses which allow searching based on location information. In one exemplary method, a representation of a location is determined from a network connection and the representation of the location is stored in association with a document for use in searching for documents based on location information. In another exemplary method, data representing a geographical location is obtained in response to creating or modifying a document and the data representing the geographical location is associated with the document, wherein the document is capable of being one of a plurality of different types of documents including a text-based document with ASCII characters within the content of the document. Other methods, media, and apparatuses are also disclosed.

A communication center has a system for managing agent-hosted sessions including systems for storing queries and responses to queries in sessions in associated pairs, and for comparing newly-arriving queries with stored query-response pairs. In the event of a match or near match, stored responses to oft-repeated queries are provided to agents for use, relieving agents of the tasks of responding manually to often-repeated queries. Parsing and sentence structure tools are used, and in some cases aid stations with knowledge workers are provided to allow editing and extra help for agents.

A method and apparatus for automatically generating tags for digital content are provided. The method is adapted to be run on a computer, which is an example of the type of apparatus which may generate the tags. The generated tags describe the digital content, and may be used as topics for the content to organize, retrieve, and process the content. The tag generation begins by accessing content from a content collection unit and a tags candidate tag database unit, which are then processed using techniques from computational linguistics in a multi-pass process that generates sets of tags, then refines and normalizes them. Finally, scores are generated and stored along with the tags.

An information processing apparatus searches for documents with access rights created for them. A file information obtaining section obtains predetermined information from a file. A right information obtaining section obtains right information indicating a user who can access a file. An index storing section stores an index in which information obtained by the file information obtaining section is associated with right information obtained by the right information obtaining section. A keyword inputting section accepts keyword input for searching for a file. A user specifying section specifies a user who inputted a keyword. A search query generating section generates a search query from a keyword input from the keyword inputting section and information indicating a user specified by the user specifying section. A searching section searches the index storing section for an index corresponding to a search query generated by the search query generating section.

Disclosed are a computer-readable code, system and method for retrieving one or more selected texts from a library of documents. The system processes a user-input search query representing the content of the text to be retrieved, and accesses a word index for the documents to identify those texts in the database having the highest word-match scores with the search query. The weights of words in the query may be adjusted to optimize the search.

Techniques are described for providing users with aggregate access to and control over information from multiple storing applications and information services, and for enabling developers to integrate such aggregate access and control into applications. Textual markup language may represent the structure of grouping items. Examples using XML and XooML (“Cross Tool Mark-up Language,” an XML schema) are provided, such that users need not change the storing application or service in order for those users' informational structures to be represented.

Some embodiments provide an application for retrieving, tagging, analyzing, and delivering content. The application includes a tag receiver for receiving content from a content provider and for retrieving tags from a tag pool and a tag processor for receiving the content and tags from the tag receiver. The tag processor includes (i) a tag assignor for associating a set of tags to the content and (ii) a tag chain organizer for organizing the set of tags into a tag chain table. The application further includes a tag score calculator for computing a tag score metric for each tag from the set of tags and associating the tag score metric with a particular subset of tags from the set. In some embodiments, the tag processor is further for receiving feedback from a feedback manager. The tag chain table of some embodiments includes a list of tag chains, a user type associated with each tag chain, and an affinity score associated with each user.

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing documents that are being tracked in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for storing documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing of the documents in association with a tag. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing can enable an efficient searching for a shared document. In an embodiment, the shared document is categorized upon being stored.

A search system used in an ebook reading device is provided. The system includes a search module, a relevancy calculating module, and a sort module. The search module is for searching metadata of the ebooks and comparing the metadata searched with corresponding metadata of an ebook currently displayed, thereby obtaining different comparison results based on different metadata. The relevancy calculating module is for computing relevancy values between the ebook currently displayed and the searched ebooks according to comparison results and corresponding weight values. The sort module is for sorting the searched ebooks according to the relevancy values computed, thereby obtaining different relevancy search results based on different metadata. Therefore, according to the different relevancy search results, readers can obtain different relevant information for the ebook currently displayed. A related search method is also provided.

Whenever a document is going to be included into the textual database, a semantic binder is used to associate the document with one or more semantic nodes which are defined in a semantic taxonomy. When a search is performed, a search application looks through a semantic dictionary (which contains a table mapping queries to nodes on the semantic taxonomy) to see whether any corresponding semantic node can be found for the searchers query. If a match is found, the search application transforms the user's query into [“original query” OR “semantic node”] so that relevant documents, even they do not contain any user's keyword, can also be found in the database. The system binds semantic nodes arranged in a hierarchical structure of the taxonomy using a Log Analyzer which periodically looks through the system log for new queries and through textual indices for documents added to the database to generate the semantic dictionary and to bind the semantic nodes to the queries in the textual indices of the documents.

The invention relates to a system and method for the enrichment and curation of concept, relationship, and assertion information into a multi-relational ontology. The invention includes a system enabling a curator, or other person, to verify the validity of assertions created by predetermined rules. The curator may also manually edit, delete, or add assertions to an ontology.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for searching an information directory in such a manner that it is easy to search, drill down, drill up and drill across an information directory using multiple independent hierarchical category taxonomies of the directory.

Disclosed is an information extraction system and method. The method comprises receiving a document and annotation data, the annotation data comprising instances of entities which have been identified in the document, the annotation entity data comprising identifiers of instances of one or more entities which have been identified in the document and data specifying the location of the identified instances of entities within the document, wherein the identifiers of instances of entities comprise references to ontology data; displaying the document to a user, with annotations dependent on the annotation data, highlighting one or more of the instances of entities whose location is specified in the annotation entity data at the location within the document specified by the annotation entity data; preparing revised annotation data from a user and outputting output data derived from the amended annotation data. The output data is typically used to populate a database.