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:
providing a first window in a display that accepts user input of a profile containing information about an entity including one or more values for one or more distinguishing attributes of the entity; providing a second window in the display concurrently visible with the first window, the second window showing a plurality of search results from one or more sources that identify documents each containing a mention with a predetermined likelihood of referring to the entity, wherein the second window displays the search results in an order ranked using an algorithm that preferentially ranks at least one of the search results relative to other ones of the plurality of search results according to one or more predetermined criteria; and displaying content of one of the search results as an item in the display, wherein the first window is responsive to a user selection of the item by adding the item to the first window, thereby providing a change in the profile, and further wherein the second window is responsive to the change in the profile by offering an updated search result.