System and method for wikifying content for knowledge navigation and discovery

Abstract

Systems, methods and computer program products for navigating concepts found in data produced by intellectuals in a knowledge discovery process are disclosed. The present invention utilizes data sources and facilities for enabling community-based contributions for identifying associations between concepts disclosed by intellectuals. The present invention's approach results in having concepts mapped to authors and tools for linking related concepts with groups of intellectuals and / or contributors.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of, and is related to, the following of Applicants' co-pending applications:[0002]U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 064,345 titled “Enhanced System and Method for Knowledge Navigation and Discovery” filed on Feb. 29, 2008;[0003]U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 064,211 titled “System and Method for Knowledge Navigation and Discovery” filed on Feb. 21, 2008;[0004]U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. ______ titled “Enhanced System and Method for Knowledge Navigation and Discovery” filed on Mar. 19, 2008;[0005]U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. ______ titled “System and Method for Knowledge Navigation and Discovery Via Intellectual Networking” filed on Mar. 26, 2008;[0006]U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 909,072 titled “Method and Object for Knowledge Discovery” filed on Mar. 30, 2007; and[0007]U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. ______ titled “Data Structur...

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Benefits of technology

"The present invention provides a system for knowledge navigation and discovery that allows users to easily search for and find information related to specific concepts. The system uses a unique data structure called a \"Knowlet\" that allows for precise information retrieval and extraction, as well as relational and associative discovery. The system also allows users to easily identify experts related to particular concepts for collaborative research purposes. The invention is provided as a research tool in the form of a Web-based or proprietary search engine, Internet browser plug-in, Wiki, or proxy server. It also allows for the removal of redundancy from the World Wide Web without losing unique information bits, resulting in a compressed or \"zipped\" version of the Web that may be more easily stored, searched, and shared. The invention also allows for the augmentation of public data stores and authoritative ontologies or thesauri, thereby allowing for a more complete concept space and knowledge navigation and discovery capabilities."

Problems solved by technology

The problem of information retrieval is as old as the origin of libraries and archives.

The query above, for example, would be transformed to something like “lung cancer AND treatment.” While PubMed offers much refinement using keyword searching, it is still vulnerable to the typical disadvantages of Boolean searching: highly specific queries such as “papers AND discuss AND new treatments AND lung cancer” will typically yield results ranging from few to none.

Furthermore, the results adhere to the word based and Boolean queries, and rank ordering the results based on relevance is typically not possible.

Thus, considerable effort has been put into the discipline of IE.

Human capacity to absorb information is limited, however, and computational tools to support hypothesis generation by processing large amounts of information comprise a promising tool in conducting research.

All of them to date, however, are in experimental stages, and not user-friendly.

The key issue here is that a transformation is needed from a document world to an “object” world.

The challenge of today's data and knowledge deluge is to optimally combine the widely varying sources of information and knowledge to select only the most promising hypotheses.

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