2147results about "Text database browsing/visualisation" 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.

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 system or method consistent with an embodiment of the present invention is useful in analyzing large volumes of different types of data, such as textual data, numeric data, categorical data, or sequential string data, for use in identifying relationships among the data types or different operations that have been performed on the data. A system or method consistent with the present invention determines and displays the relative content and context of related information and is operative to aid in identifying relationships among disparate data types. Various data types, such as numerical data, protein and DNA sequence data, categorical information, and textual information, such as annotations associated with the numerical data or research papers may be correlated for visual analysis. A variety of user-selectable views may be correlated for user interaction to identify relationships that exist among the different types of data or various operations performed on the data.

Furthermore, the user may explore the information contained in sets of records and their associated attributes through the use of interactive 2-D line charts and interactive summary miniplots.

A system and method of information retrieval and triage for information analysis provides an for interactive multi-dimensional and linked visual representation of information content and properties. A query interface plans and obtains result sets. A dimension interface specifies dimensions with which to categorize the result sets. Links among results of a result set or results of different sets are automatically generated for linked selection viewing. Entities may be extracted and viewed and entity relations determined to establish further links and dimensions. Properties encoded in representations (e.g. icons) of the results in the multidimensional views maximizes display density. Multiple queries may be performed and compared. An integrated browser component responsive to the links is provided for viewing documents. Documents and other information from the result set may be used in an analysis component providing a space for visual linking, to arrange the information in the space while maintaining links automatically.

The present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program for automatically extracting and mining relations and related entities from unstructured text. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: extracting relations and related entities from unstructured text data, representing the extracted information into a graph, and manipulating the resulting graph to gain more insight into the information it contains. The extraction of relations and related entities is performed first by automatically inducting pattern and second by applying these induced patterns to unstructured text data. For each relation and entity, several features are extracted in order to build a graph whose nodes are entities and edges are relations.

The present invention is directed generally to providing systems and methods for data analysis. More specifically, embodiments may provide system(s) and method(s) including dynamic user modeling techniques to capture the relational and dynamic patterns of information content and/or users' or entities' interests. Various embodiments may include system(s) and method(s) that are based on, for example, the past history of content semantics, temporal changes, and/or user community relationship. Various embodiments may include modeling and/or analysis of the dynamic nature of an item of interest's value to a user(s)/entity(ies) over time. The dynamic factors may be consider in any manner, such as, individually or combined, sequentially or simultaneously, etc. Further, some embodiments may include, for example, system(s) and method(s) relating to analyzing data to capture user/entity interests and/or characteristics, consider content semantics and evolutionary information, and/or using community relationships of users/entities to thereby analyze information and provide dynamic conclusion(s) (e.g., recommendation(s)).

This application relates to information analysis and more particularly to a system and method for interactive visual representation of information content and relationships using layouts and gestures. A visualization tool is provided which facilitates both ad-hoc and more formal analytical tasks as a flexible and expressive thinking environment. The tool provides a space focused on ‘Human Interaction with Information’ and enabling evidence marshalling. Capabilities of the tool include put-this-there cognition, automatic analysis templates, and gestures for the fluid expression of thought and scalability mechanisms to support large analysis tasks.

The present invention relates to a semi-automatic construction method for knowledge base of an encyclopedia question answering system, in which concept-oriented systematic templates are designed and important fact information related to entries is automatically extracted from summary information and body of the encyclopedia to semi-automatically construct the knowledge base of the encyclopedia question answering system. A semi-automatic construction method for knowledge base of an encyclopedia question answering system of the present invention comprises the steps of: (a) designing structure of the knowledge base with a plurality of templates for each entry and a plurality attributes related to each of the templates; (b) extracting structured information including the entry, an attribute name and attribute values from summary information of the encyclopedia; (c) extracting unstructured information including an attribute name and attribute values of the entry from a body of the encyclopedia; and (d) storing the structured information and the unstructured information in corresponding template and attribute of the knowledge base according to the entry.

A system and method is provided for identifying useful content in a knowledge repository accessed by a plurality of users. The system and method includes the operation of identifying each unique user that accesses a document in the knowledge repository. Another operation is tracking an amount of time each unique user has a document open to create a set of document open time values. Document usefulness is then determined based on a comparison of the document open time values for the unique users.

An article reader program of this invention comprises: detecting that a display of data concerning a first article is instructed by a user; calculating an article relevance degree between the first article and a second article; extracting the second article whose article relevance degree with the first article satisfies a predetermined condition in relation to the first article; assigning a top priority to the first article; assigning a priority lower than the top priority of the first article to the extracted second article; and displaying the data concerning the first article and data concerning the extracted second article according to the assigned priorities of the first article and the extracted second article.

A system and method for providing search results in visually illustrative concept format is disclosed herein. Concepts relating to a query term are identified. The search results comprise a conceptual search result entry for each identified concept. Each conceptual search result entry includes at least a visual content and textual content relating to its respective identified concept. The content for a given conceptual search result entry can come from different sources.

Data is processed at a central data processor using multiple processing steps. The data is processed for the extraction of entities. Relationships between the extracted entities are also extracted. A system map is built using one or more factors derived from the extracted entities and relationships and organized by influence relationships. Each factor is associated with one or more options.

There is provided a technique for extracting from information stored in a computer system, all information associated with a certain keyword and displaying it in a manner for easy recognition by a user. An information retrieving and displaying method for extracting from information stored in a computer system, all information associated with a certain keyword and displaying it in a classified and highlighted manner for easy recognition by a user, comprises steps of: retrieving information including a keyword specified by the user as the certain keyword; extracting information about contact addresses included in the information retrieved by the retrieving step; and displaying in a list the information about the contact addresses extracted by the extracting step.

The user is enabled to move smoothly between viewing an entire document in a word by word display, through views that display only elements of increasing landmark value, to an overview of the document in a single display window. A document is parsed into a hierarchy, of which each node at every level (from chapter to sentence, clause or long word) has a display state (invisible, tokenized or open) for the way it is shown as part of an expandable view of the document. The contents opted for display within a tokenized view may be prioiritized according to a system of landmark values. The view is modified by user input using an explicit data structure of nodes and states within the device controlling the display, or by structuring in another system the underlying logic of the arrangement of code that is acted upon by a web browser. The section hierarchy may be explicitly coded in the document format, or reconstructed from typographical evidence. The user may grasp the overall structure of a document, and move quickly to examine details. The display can provide a structured contextual response to a search, or a unified view of non-local changes in editing. It can be provided by the user's local machine, by a web site maintaining the document, or by a portal via which the user accesses the document, allowing incremental download to begin with a usable overview and to avoid un-needed material. Hyperlinks can be used to embed all or part of another document, opening in a tokenized view, within a document currently displayed. Fullness of the view with which the document opens can adapt to the user's choices, to available display space, to a search term, or to detailed specifications contained in a hyperlink.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for organizing and viewing electronic objects (such as incoming electronic mail messages, documents, and so forth) according to relationships among the objects. Objects may be organized according to user-selectable, node-specific criteria These criteria may be dynamically learned, based upon a particular user's behavior, using the disclosed techniques.