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United States Patent | 6,199,034 |
Wical | March 6, 2001 |
A content processing system determines content of input discourse. The content processing system includes a theme vector processor that determines themes in the input discourse. The theme vector processor identifies themes, including identifying the relative importance of the themes in the input discourse by generating a theme strength. The theme strength indicates relative thematic importance for the theme in the input discourse. A knowledge catalog, which includes static ontologies arranged in a hierarchical structure, is also disclosed. The static ontologies are independent and parallel of each other, and contain knowledge concepts to represent a world view of knowledge. The theme vector processor utilizes the static ontologies to generate a theme concept for each theme by extracting a knowledge concept from a higher level node in the hierarchical structure of a static ontology.
Inventors: | Wical; Kelly (Redwood Shores, CA) |
Assignee: |
Oracle Corporation
(Redwood Shores,
CA)
|
Appl. No.: | 09/058,980 |
Filed: | April 14, 1998 |
Application Number | Filing Date | Patent Number | Issue Date | ||
455484 | May., 1995 | ||||
Current U.S. Class: | 704/9 ; 715/200; 715/234; 715/256 |
Current International Class: | G06F 17/27 (20060101); G06F 017/28 (); G06F 017/27 () |
Field of Search: | 704/1,9,10 395/759,760,60,54,10 707/530,531 |
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