CONCEPT-BASED ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA USING CONCEPT INHERITANCE

摘要

In one embodiment, a method comprises defining a set of concepts based on a first set of structured and unstructured data objects, defining a business rule based on the set of concepts, applying the business rule to a second set of structured and unstructured data objects to make a determination associated with that set, and outputting to a display information associated with the determination.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
determining a first concept from a first set of data objects, the first concept including a first seed concept and at least one first related concept and defined by a first regular expression indicating (1) a data code in a data object from the first set and (2) a presence of a text string in a data object from the first set; determining a second concept from a second set of data objects, the second concept including a second seed concept and at least one second related concept and defined by a second regular expression indicating (1) a data code in a data object from the second set and (2) a presence of a text string in a data object from the second set, such that the first concept and the second concept are not positively correlated; determining a business rule that includes a third regular expression indicating (1) the presence or absence of data code indicative of at least one of the first concept or the second concept in a data object from the first set or a data object from the second set and (2) the presence or absence of a text string indicative of at least one of the first concept or the second concept in a data object from the first set or a data object from the second set; applying the business rule to a third set of data objects to make a predictive determination for the third set; and outputting information associated with the predictive determination to a display.