Entity-centric knowledge discovery

摘要

A user interface of an entity-centric knowledge discovery system presents an entity profile including a mix of structured and unstructured data relating to an entity. As a user refines the entity profile based on information gathered from various sources, the changing entity profile can be used as a substantially continuously updating query to search, retrieve, and rank new and pertinent information specifically relevant to the profiled entity. The platform described herein provide an active loop for refining an entity description and searching for additional information in which human input and machine-based algorithms can cooperate to more quickly build a comprehensive description of an entity of interest.

主权项

1. A computer program product comprising computer executable code embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of:
presenting an in-progress document to a first window in a display, the in-progress document including a user-editable document containing information about an entity; receiving a user input of a modification from a user to the in-progress document in the first window; searching for a plurality of documents containing a mention with a predetermined likelihood of referring to the entity described in the in-progress document; ranking the plurality of documents in an order ranked using an algorithm that preferentially ranks at least one of the plurality of documents relative to other ones of the plurality of documents according to one or more predetermined criteria for comparing information in the in-progress document to information in a context window around the mention of the entity in each of the plurality of documents, thereby providing a plurality of search results; presenting the plurality of search results to a second window in the display concurrently visible with the first window; presenting content of one of the search results as an item to the second window, or to a third window concurrently visible with the first window and the second window; receiving a user selection of the item within the display; adding the item to the first window in response to the user selection, thereby providing a change in the in-progress document; creating a reference tag associating the item in the first window with a source of the item; automatically updating the search results in response to the change in the in-progress document; and providing a visual indication to a user in the display that an updated search result is available for the second window.