Expertise Profiling from Historical Prompts for Accurate Expert Matching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional methods of expert selection lack objectivity and fail to capture the evolving expertise of individuals, often relying on subjective recommendations and lacking rigorous profiling and collaborative validation.

Innovation Solution

A computer-based system for dynamic expertise profiling through historical prompt-driven refinement interactions, which includes receiving prompts, extracting features, generating metrics, ranking users, creating user pairs, and executing validation workflows to ensure accurate and adaptive expert selection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional subjective recommendation methods are used for expert selection, then the process is simple and easy to operate, but the objectivity and accuracy of expert identification deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexpert identification accuracyVSAvoidprofiling system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The expert identification process is segmented into distinct components: historical prompt collection, feature extraction (accuracy, complexity, domain relevance), metric generation, and dynamic ranking. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system objectivity and accuracy without excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and analyzing historical prompts before actual expert selection is needed. User profiles are pre-built with extracted features and metrics from past interactions, enabling rapid and objective expert identification when queries are submitted without requiring complex real-time analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If static expert profiles are used, then the system is simpler to maintain, but the ability to capture evolving expertise deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexpertise evolution trackingVSAvoidprofile updating time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous profiling by automatically analyzing new historical prompts as they are submitted, continuously updating user metrics and rankings without interruption. This continuous action ensures expertise profiles evolve in real-time to reflect current knowledge levels while the automated process minimizes time loss through efficient batch processing and incremental updates.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback mechanisms where query results and user interactions continuously inform profile updates. The metrics generated from historical prompts provide feedback on user expertise, which is fed back into the ranking system to dynamically adjust expert profiles, ensuring they remain current without requiring manual intervention or significant time investment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive historical prompt analysis is performed, then expert identification accuracy improves, but the processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexpert ranking accuracyVSAvoidmetrics generation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of historical prompts to extract key features (accuracy, complexity, domain relevance) and pre-compute user metrics before actual expert selection is needed. This advance processing reduces the time required during actual queries by having profiles and rankings pre-established, maintaining high accuracy while minimizing real-time processing delays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts only the most relevant features from historical prompts (accuracy, complexity, domain relevance) rather than analyzing every aspect of user interactions. This partial action approach focuses computational resources on the most impactful metrics for expert identification, achieving high ranking accuracy without the excessive processing time that would result from comprehensive analysis of all possible prompt attributes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

4Reliability

If manual expert validation is used, then the reliability of expert selection improves, but the scalability and productivity of the system deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexpert selection reliabilityVSAvoidexpert selection throughput
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service validation where user profiles automatically validate themselves through consistent performance metrics extracted from historical prompts. The metric generation and ranking processes are self-executing based on objective analysis of user interactions, eliminating the need for manual validation while maintaining reliability through data-driven assessments. This allows the system to scale indefinitely without additional validation resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces manual validation mechanisms with automated computational analysis. Instead of human reviewers assessing expert qualifications, the system uses algorithmic analysis of historical prompt performance, feature extraction, and metric generation to objectively validate and rank experts. This substitution of mechanical validation with automated processes maintains reliability through consistent criteria application while dramatically increasing productivity and scalability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS20260017536A1Dynamic expertise profiling through historical prompt-driven refinement interactions
Publication Date: 2026.01.15 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

An embodiment for dynamic expertise profiling through historical prompt-driven refinement interactions is provided. The embodiment may include receiving historical prompts submitted by one or more users. The embodiment may also include extracting one or more features from the historical prompts. The embodiment may further include generating one or more metrics for the historical prompts. The embodiment may also include ranking the one or more users. The embodiment may further include creating one or more pairs of matched users. The embodiment may also include executing a validation workflow for the one or more pairs of matched users.