Techniques for knowledge discovery by constructing knowledge correlations using concepts or terms

摘要

Techniques for identifying knowledge use an graphical user interface for inputting one or more terms to be explored for additional knowledge. Then a search is conducted across one or more sources of information to identify resources containing information about or information associated with said terms. The resources are decomposed into elemental units of information and stored in a data structures called nodes. A group of nodes are stored in a node pool and, from the node pool, correlations of nodes are constructed that represent knowledge.

主权项

1. A method for identifying knowledge comprising:
using an input device coupled to a processor and associated memory for receiving at least one input term; using the processor and the associated memory for searching at least one source of information to identify resources comprising information associated with the at least one input term; using the processor and the associated memory for decomposing the resources into a plurality of nodes so that each node comprises a data structure including a subject, an attribute, and a word based relational bond therebetween to represent a relation between the subject and the attribute, each node also conveying meaning of the relation independently of other nodes in the plurality of nodes; using the processor and the memory for storing the plurality of nodes in a node pool; and using the processor and the associated memory for generating correlations of the node pool representing knowledge associated with the at least one input term by at least iteratively adding nodes from the node pool onto an end of a chain of nodes by searching the node pool for a match between an attribute of a chained node and a subject of another unchained node in the node pool, the iterative adding of nodes ending when the node pool is exhausted of candidate nodes or when a current terminus node is a destination node.