Auto-Identifying Secondary Insights via Reverse Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face inefficiencies in discovering additional information about celebrities or public figures beyond what is presented in news articles, requiring manual searches through search engines, which consumes time and resources.

Innovation Solution

A computing system utilizing a knowledge graph, sentiment analysis, and named entity recognition to identify and present links to webpages containing information about a celebrity's interests, embedded within relevant news articles, thereby eliminating the need for external searches.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users manually search through search engines for additional information about celebrities, then they can find comprehensive information, but it consumes time and computational resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidsearch time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary extraction of celebrity interest information from news articles before the user needs it. By analyzing articles in advance and pre-identifying secondary insights (celebrity interests), the system eliminates the need for users to manually search when they want additional information about celebrities mentioned in articles.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary layer between the user and the information search process. Instead of users directly querying search engines, the system acts as an intermediary that automatically extracts and presents relevant celebrity interest information from news articles, thereby reducing search time while maintaining information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If the system extracts secondary insights from news articles, then it provides additional information about celebrities, but it increases device complexity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the necessary secondary insights (celebrity interests) from news articles using named entity recognition and sentiment analysis. By taking out only the relevant information rather than processing entire articles in depth, the system reduces computational complexity while still providing comprehensive celebrity information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a simplified representation (copy) of celebrity interest information extracted from news articles. Instead of storing and processing complete article content, the system maintains a condensed copy of only the relevant celebrity interest data, reducing storage requirements and processing complexity while preserving information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Ease of operation

If the system presents links to webpages with celebrity interest information, then it improves discoverability, but it may present inappropriate information in negative sentiment contexts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation discoverabilityVSAvoidinappropriate context
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses sentiment analysis as a feedback mechanism to determine whether to present celebrity interest information. By analyzing the sentiment tone of news articles, the system provides feedback on whether secondary insights should be displayed, thereby preventing inappropriate information presentation in negative sentiment contexts while maintaining discoverability in appropriate contexts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20240062002A1Computing system for auto-identification of secondary insights using reverse extraction
Publication Date: 2024.02.22 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

A computing system obtains a first article about a first topic, where the first article references a plurality of entities including a person. The computing system identifies the person as a dominant entity of the first article. The computing system determines whether the first article expresses negative sentiment based upon content of the first article. In accordance with a determination that the first article does not express negative sentiment, the computing system retrieves a uniform resource locator (URL) of a webpage about a second topic that is of interest to the first person. Upon receiving a request for the first article from a computing device, the computing system causes the first article and a link to be concurrently displayed on a display, where the URL of the webpage is embedded in the link.