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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1999
Killian Stoffel, Columbier, CH;
Robert L. Wood, Rush, NY (US);
Manning & Napier Information Services, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for efficiently analyzing databases. In one embodiment, the invention is used to analyze data represented in the form of attribute-value (a-v) pairs. A primary step in building the ontology is to identify parent, child and related a-v pairs of each given a-v pair in the database. A parent is an a-v pair that is always present whenever a given a-v pair is present. A child is an a-v pair that is never present unless the given a-v pair is present. Related pairs of a given a-v pair are those a-v pairs present some of the time when a given a-v pair is present. The system calculates relationships between a-v pairs to produce tables of a-v pairs presented according to the relationships. The user performs additional analysis by investigating the a-v pair relationships through a graphical user interface. Additional visualizations of the data are possible such as through Venn diagrams and animations. Plain-text data documents collected, for example, from the Internet can be analyzed. In this case, the system pre-processes the text data to build a-v pairs based on sentence syntax.