Active knowledge guidance based on deep document analysis

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9824088-B2
Application number	US-201414493471-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2014
Priority date	Sep 17, 2013
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

An approach is provided for an information handling system to present knowledge-based information. In the approach, a semantic analysis is performed on the document with the analysis resulting in various sets of semantic content. Each of the sets of semantic content corresponds to an area in the document. The areas of the document are visually highlighted using visual indicators that show the availability of the sets of semantic content to a user via a user interface. In response to a user selection, such as a selection using the user interface or a user specified configuration setting, a selected set of semantic content is displayed to the user using the interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, in an information handling system comprising a processor and a memory, of presenting knowledge-based information, the method comprising:
performing, by the information handling system, a semantic analysis on a selected document, the analysis resulting in one or more sets of semantic content, wherein each of the sets of semantic content correspond to a different area of the selected document, and wherein at least a selected one of the sets of semantic content comprises external semantic information from one or more external documents stored in a knowledge base;
for the selected set of semantic content, selecting a visual indicator, wherein the selected visual indicator identifies an availability and a type of the selected set of semantic content, and wherein selecting the visual indicator comprises:
determining the type of the selected set of semantic content; and
retrieving a user configuration setting, wherein the user configuration setting indicates the visual indicator, selected from a plurality of visual indicators, to use for the type of the selected set of semantic content;

preparing the selected document for display in a user interface, wherein the preparing comprises inserting the selected visual indicator in the selected document proximate to the corresponding area;
receiving, from the user interface that is displaying the selected document with the selected set of semantic content, a data change from a user; and
sending the received data change to a knowledge manager, wherein the knowledge manager updates the knowledge base that includes the sets of semantic content based on the received data change.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the visual indicator is selected from a group consisting of displaying a highlight on the corresponding area, displaying an overlay proximate to the corresponding area, displaying an annotation proximate to the corresponding area, displaying an information bubble proximate to the corresponding area, displaying a markup proximate to the corresponding area, displaying a display layer proximate to the corresponding area, displaying a flyover proximate to the corresponding area, and displaying a selectable icon proximate to the corresponding area.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
wherein the type of the selected set of semantic content is selected from a group consisting of additional information for chart or table, more up-to-date information than document content, semantic content linked to the area of the selected document, semantic content related to the area of the selected document, and related semantic content that forms a functional block.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying the selected set of semantic content in response to a user selection, wherein the displaying comprises:
automatically displaying the selected set of semantic content proximate to the corresponding area in lieu of receiving a user request at the user interface based on the selected visual indicator, wherein the visual indicator is selected from the group consisting of an information bubble, a display layer, and a flyover.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
transmitting a request for the semantic analysis to the knowledge manager, wherein the performance of the semantic analysis further comprises the knowledge manager utilizing the knowledge base to find one or more of the sets of semantic content.

6. A method, in an information handling system comprising a processor and a memory, of presenting knowledge-based information, the method comprising:
performing, by the information handling system, a semantic analysis on a selected document, the analysis resulting in one or more sets of semantic content, wherein each of the sets of semantic content correspond to a different area of the selected document, and wherein at least a selected one of the sets of semantic content comprises external semantic information from one or more external documents stored in a knowledge base;
for the selected set of semantic content, selecting a visual indicator, wherein the selected visual indicator identifies an availability and a type of the selected set of semantic content, and wherein selecting the visual indicator comprises:
determining the type of the selected set of semantic content; and
retrieving a user configuration setting, wherein the user configuration setting indicates the visual indicator, selected from a plurality of visual indicators, to use for the type of the selected set of semantic content;

preparing the selected document for display in a user interface, wherein the preparing comprises inserting the selected visual indicator in the selected document proximate to the corresponding area;
receiving, from the user interface that is displaying the selected document with the selected set of semantic content, a query from a user;
in response to sending the received query to a knowledge manager, receiving additional content from the knowledge manager; and
sending the additional content to the user interface for display to the user.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Byron Donna K
• Kummamuru Krishna
• Pikovsky Alexander
• Winkler Timothy

Classifications

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F16/7844

  using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data · CPC title

• G06F16/35

  Clustering; Classification · CPC title

• G06F16/243 Primary

  Natural language query formulation · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title