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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2002
Sherman R. Alpert, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Sherman R. Alpert, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method for translating node-and-link knowledge representations to an outline format is disclosed. The representation includes one or more node objects and one or more link objects. Each link object has a 'from node identifier' that identifies the node object in a concept map connected to a link's tail and a 'to node identifier' identifying the node object in the concept map to which the link object points. A translation program traverses all of the node objects in a node-and-link representation as directed by the link objects by following links out of each node depending of the link objects' “to node identifier” such that an outline is output having node object information and link object information hierarchically interrelated.