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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2008
Andrew Duchon, Somerville, MA (US);
Kari Kelton, Washington, DC (US);
Pacey Foster, Dorchester, MA (US);
Kara Orvis, Melrose, MA (US);
Andrew Duchon, Somerville, MA (US);
Kari Kelton, Washington, DC (US);
Pacey Foster, Dorchester, MA (US);
Kara Orvis, Melrose, MA (US);
Aptima, Inc, Woburn, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates in general to methods and systems for comparing and maximizing the appropriateness of a first set of one or more data objects to a set of second data objects. In one embodiment, the first set of data objects represent one or more tasks to be fulfilled by a set of capabilities represented by the second data objects. In one embodiment, this invention provides an effective and accurate method and system to compare and maximize the appropriateness between the requirements of a task and the second set's capabilities, while these capabilities and requirements are contained, even if only latently, in data objects such as written documents, electronic databases or other sources of data and information. In one embodiment, topic modeling techniques are utilized to compare the data objects.