Document analysis, commenting, and reporting system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9384187-B2
Application number	US-201213567557-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 6, 2012
Priority date	Nov 27, 2007
Publication date	Jul 5, 2016
Grant date	Jul 5, 2016

Abstract

A method includes identifying a document structure instance that includes structure components. A selected structure component is chosen from the structure components. The method includes generating, with a processor, a hierarchical graph based on the selected structure component. The hierarchical graph includes classes, a class definition relationship, and an instance identifier that identifies the selected structure component. The hierarchical graph is output.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method comprising:
identifying a document structure instance that includes a plurality of structure components;
selecting one structure component from the structure components;
selecting by a processor, a pre-configured core ontology hierarchy associated with the selected structure component, the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy including a plurality of classes, and a class definition relationships;
generating a document specific ontology hierarchy based on the selected pre-configured core ontology, wherein the document specific ontology includes a subset of the classes included in the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy;
inserting into the document specific ontology instance identifiers associated with each respective structure component; and
outputting the document specific ontology hierarchy.

2. The method of claim 1 , where the class definition relationship illustrates a relationship between at least two of the classes.

3. The method of claim 1 , where identifying comprises identifying the document structure instance using a document structure identifier.

4. The method of claim 3 , where the document structure identifier identifies a document type including structure categories; and
where the selected structure component is associated with at least one of the structure categories of the document type.

5. The method of claim 1 , where the classes include a root class and a child class of the root class.

6. The method of claim 5 , where the class definition relationship identifies a vertical relationship between the root class and the child class.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a glossary associated with the selected structure component, the glossary including permissible terms for a structure category associated with the selected structure component, the permissible terms including hierarchy parameters indicating parent or child relationships for the permissible terms.

8. The method of claim 7 , where generating comprises generating the hierarchical graph using the hierarchy parameters of the permissible terms in the glossary.

9. The method of claim 1 , where the class definition relationship comprises an affect relationship, a contradict relationship, a dependency relationship, an implement relationship, a similarity relationship, or any combination.

10. A system comprising:
a memory comprising:
a document structure instance that includes structure components;
instructions to:
receive a selected structure component from the structure components;
select a pre-configured core ontology hierarchy associated with the selected structure component, the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy including a plurality of classes, and a class definition relationships
generate a document specific ontology hierarchy based on the selected pre-configured core ontology, wherein the document specific ontology includes a subset of the classes included in the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy;
insert into the document specific ontology instance identifier that identifies the selected structure component; and
output the hierarchical graph; and

a processor configured to execute the instructions.

11. The system of claim 10 , where the class definition relationship identifies a relationship between at least two of the classes.

12. The system of claim 10 , where the class definition relationship comprises an affect relationship, a contradict relationship, a dependency relationship, an implement relationship, a similarity relationship, or any combination.

13. The system of claim 10 , where the classes include a root class and a child class of the root class; and
where the class definition relationship identifies a vertical relationship between the root class and the child class.

14. The system of claim 10 , further comprising:
a glossary associated with the selected structure component, the glossary including permissible terms for a structure category associated with the selected structure component, the permissible terms including hierarchy parameters indicating parent or child relationships for the permissible terms; and
where the hierarchical graph is generated according to the hierarchy parameters of the permissible terms in the glossary.

15. The system of claim 10 , where the selected structure component is a first selected structure component and where the hierarchical graph that is generated is a first hierarchical graph, and where the memory further comprises:
instructions to:
receive a second selected structure component from the structure components; and
generate a second hierarchical graph of said document structure instance corresponding to the second selected structure component.

16. The system of claim 10 , where the memory further comprises: instructions to:
modify the hierarchical graph to include instance identifiers of each respective structure component in the hierarchical graph.

17. The system of claim 10 , where the memory further comprises:
instructions to
compare the hierarchical graph with a predetermined hierarchical graph to detect compatibility of the document structure instance with a predetermined format of a document comprising the document structure instance.

18. A method comprising:
accessing a pre-configured core ontology hierarchy that defines a hierarchy of classes and class definition relationships between at least some of the classes, where each of the classes of the ontology model is associated with a search term;
analyzing a first document structure instance against the ontology model to determine a first class associated with the first document structure instance by searching the first document structure instance for a first search term associated with the first class;
analyzing a second document structure instance against the ontology model to determine a second class associated with the second document structure instance by searching the second document structure instance for a second search term associated with the second class; and
analyzing, with a processor, the class definition relationships to determine whether the first class affects the second class
generating a document specific ontology hierarchy based on the selected pre-configured core ontology, wherein the document specific ontology includes a subset of the classes included in the pre-configured core ontology hierarchy and a first instance identifier that identifies the first class associated with the first document structure instance and a second instance identifier that identifies the second class associated with the second document structure instance; and
outputting the ontology model.

19. The method of claim 18 , where the classes include a root class and a child class.

Assignees

• Verma Kunal
• Kass Alex
• Accenture Global Services Ltd

Inventors

• Verma Kunal
• Kass Alex

Classifications

• G06F16/36

  Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri · CPC title

• G06F8/10 Primary

  Requirements analysis; Specification techniques · CPC title

• G06F16/93

  Document management systems · CPC title

• G06F40/284

  Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates · CPC title

• G06F40/253

  Grammatical analysis; Style critique · CPC title