Assisted knowledge discovery and publication system and method

A system for generating and storing a multilayer ontological subject index into one or more data structures for knowledge retrieval comprising:

• one or more data processing or computing units, said one or more data processing or computing units having compound processing speeds of one thousand million or larger than one thousand million instructions per second and a collective memory of larger than predetermined storage capacity configured to:
• providing a plurality of ontological subjects,
• providing access to a collection of electronic content by way of electronic communication through a data communication network, said data communication network carries, transmits, or transports data at the rate of 10 million bits per second or larger than 10 million bits per second,
• evaluating numerically, using said one or more processing or computing units, association values between a number of pairs of ontological subjects, using data information of co-occurrence of each of said pairs, within predefined proximities in the collection of electronic content;
• selecting a first set of ontological subjects, and building an association set for a member of said first set, wherein the association set corresponds to one or more ontological subjects having association values higher than a predefined value with said member of the first set,
• indexing the members of the first set and members of said associated set in a multilayer index of ontological subjects, wherein each layer is assigned with an index frame indicating the layer and association of the ontological subjects;
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• building one or more data structures corresponding to said multilayer index of ontological subjects and storing said one or more data structures into one or more non transitory computer readable storage devices;
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• querying the ontological subject index to retrieve ontological subjects having association values of larger than a predefined value.