Method for extracting knowledge from online documentation and creating a glossary, index, help database or the like
US5799268A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 28, 1994 |
| Grant date | Aug 25, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 28, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99943
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method involving computer-mediated linguistic analysis of online technical documentation to extract and catalog from the documentation knowledge essential to, for example, creating a online help database useful in providing online assistance to users in performing a task. The method comprises stripping markup tags from the documentation, linguistically analyzing and annotating the text, including the steps of morphologically and lexically analyzing the text, disambiguating between possible parts-of-speech for each word, and syntactically analyzing and labeling each word. The method further comprises the steps of combining the linguistically analyzed, annotated, and labeled text and previously stripped markup information into a merged file, mining the merged file for domain knowledge, including the steps of identifying and creating a list of technical terminology, mining the merged file for manifestations of domain primitives and maintaining a list of manifestations of such domain primitives in an observations file, analyzing the discourse context of each sentence or phrase in the merged file, analyzing the frequency of manifestations of domain primitives in the observations file …
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