Creation of component templates based on semantically similar content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11222183-B2
Application number	US-202016791632-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 14, 2020
Priority date	Feb 14, 2020
Publication date	Jan 11, 2022
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022

Abstract

Systems, methods and products for accessing a set of electronic document templates, identifying instances of common document content such as content items which are semantically similar, and generating component templates containing the common content. Semantically similar content may be identified by analyzing content for factors such as expressed sentiment, included keyphrases, recognizable entities, expressed topics, assigning values to content based on these factors, and determining similarity based on comparisons of the assigned values. Component templates may also be generated based on types of content that include identical text or images, content that has a predefined level of similarity rather than being identical, content that has common rules, scripting logic or variables, metadata, etc. The component templates may be generated automatically, or in response to user instructions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for creation of component templates, comprising:
an identification engine configured to access a set of electronic document templates and identify semantically similar content instances contained in two or more electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates, wherein for each of a plurality of content instances in the set of electronic document templates, corresponding values representing one or more semantic factors are determined, wherein for each of the one or more semantic factors, the corresponding values of each of the content instances are compared to determine a degree of similarity of the content instances with respect to the semantic factor, and wherein an overall degree of similarity between the content instances is determined based on the degrees of similarity with respect to each of the semantic factors; and
a component template engine configured to, responsive to receipt of data indicative of a user instruction, create the component template corresponding to the two or more electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates, wherein the component template contains the semantically similar content instances identified in the two or more electronic document templates and is configured to enable new documents to be generated therefrom, and store the component template.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the identification engine is configured to, for each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates:
analyze content therein and thereby
determine a sentiment associated with the electronic document template,
recognize entities identified in the electronic document template,
identify keyphrases contained in the electronic document template, and
identify topics contained in the electronic document template; and

identify semantically similar content instances by comparing the identified sentiments, the recognized entities, the identified keyphrases, and the identified topics in each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein identifying the semantically similar content instances comprises computing a semantic distance between two electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates, wherein the semantic distance is determined based on one or more of:
a first similarity value representative of a similarity between sentiments associated with the two electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates,
a second similarity value representative of recognized entities identified in the two electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates,
a third similarity value representative of a similarity between identified keyphrases contained in the two electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates, and
a fourth similarity value representative of a similarity between identified topics contained in the two electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the identification engine is configured to, for each of the content instances, store the values for each of the one or more semantic factors in a corresponding vector.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the overall degree of similarity between the content instances is determined by comparing the respective semantic factor values of the vectors corresponding to the content instances, determining the degree of similarity of the content instances with respect to each semantic factor, and summing the degrees of similarity of the content instances for all of the semantic factors to generate an overall similarity score.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein, for each of the vectors corresponding to the content instances, the value for each semantic factor is multiplied by a weighting factor corresponding to the semantic factor.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the overall similarity score between the content instances is compared to a threshold similarity value and the content instances are determined to be similar if the overall similarity score meets or exceeds the threshold similarity value.

8. A memory resource storing instructions that when executed cause a processing resource to create component templates, the instructions comprising:
an identification module that when executed causes the processing resource to access a set of electronic document templates and identify semantically similar content instances contained in two or more electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates, wherein for each of a plurality of content instances in the set of electronic document templates, corresponding values representing one or more semantic factors are determined, wherein for each of the one or more semantic factors, the corresponding values of each of the content instances are compared to determine a degree of similarity of the content instances with respect to the semantic factor, and wherein an overall degree of similarity between the content instances is determined based on the degrees of similarity with respect to each of the semantic factors; and
a component template module that when executed causes the processing resource to, responsive to receipt of data indicative of a user instruction, create the component template corresponding to the two or more electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates, wherein the component template contains semantically similar content instances identified in the two or more electronic document templates and is configured to enable new documents to be generated therefrom, and store the component template.

9. The memory resource of claim 8 , wherein the identification module is configured to analyze, for each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates, content therein and determine a sentiment associated with the electronic document template, wherein the identification module is configured to identify semantically similar content instances by comparing at least the sentiment associated with each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates.

10. The memory resource of claim 8 , wherein the identification module is configured to analyze, for each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates, content therein and recognize entities identified therein, wherein the identification module is configured to identify semantically similar content instances by comparing at least the recognized entities identified in each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates.

11. The memory resource of claim 8 , wherein the identification module is configured to analyze, for each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates, content therein and identify keyphrases contained therein, wherein the identification module is configured to identify semantically similar content instances by comparing at least the identified keyphrases in each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates.

12. The memory resource of claim 8 , wherein the identification module is configured to analyze, for each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates, content therein and identify topics contained therein, wherein the identification module is configured to identify semantically similar content instances by comparing at least the identified topics in each electronic document template of the set of electronic document templates.

13. The memory resource of claim 8 , wher

Assignees

• Open Text Holdings Inc

Inventors

• Downs James Matthew
• Wiley Anthony

Classifications

• G06F40/186

  Templates · CPC title

• G06F40/289

  Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking · CPC title

• G06F40/30 Primary

  Semantic analysis · CPC title