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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michele M. Franceschini, White Plains, NY (US);
Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
John T. Richards, Honeoye, NY (US);
Livio B. Soares, New York, NY (US);
Mark N. Wegman, Ossining, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to an aspect, searching, recommending, and exploring documents through conceptual associations includes a method for receiving a plurality of documents and extracting concepts from each of the documents. A degree of relation between each of the documents and concepts in a knowledge base is calculated. The method also includes, in response to receiving a query, determining one or more concepts from the query. For each of the concepts, a list of documents having a highest degree of relation to the concept is retrieved. The method also includes outputting a list that is responsive to the one or more retrieved lists.