International Business Machines Corporation

Amy W Chow

Larry Lee Proctor

Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen

Justin Thomas Lessler

W Scott Spangler

Michael J Danke

Terry K Tullis

Edward L Smierciak

Julie J Pietrzak

A computing system and method explores a knowledge repository by accepting a natural language query from a user, determining a distance between the query and every category in every partitioning of the knowledge repository, and displaying a radial graph ( ) of the nearest categories. Further, in response to a user selecting a category, visually displaying matching elements in the category along with its nearest neighbor categories in a scatter plot ( ).

Method and system for knowledge repository exploration and visualization

A method and structure for searching a computerized network of databases containing documents uses a web crawler. The web crawler is provided with conceptual guidelines before the searching. The invention summarizes and performs text clustering on the summaries to produce classifications. The text clustering is performed using seeds based on the conceptual guidelines. The invention then provides, through a user interface, the classifications and a query entry to search the classifications and directs (in response to the query entry) the user to one or more of the classifications, such that the user is directed to the classifications (and hyperlinks to the documents) and the user is not provided the documents themselves.

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