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AssigneeUniversität Konstanz
InventorMichael Berthold
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In summary, the present invention concerns processes for computer supported processing of source data elements (32-40, 46-54) of a source data quantity (20) with the following steps: Input of at least one query data element, particularly a search string, Determination of a weighted link (42, 44, 60) of the query data element with at least one source data element (34, 38, 40) of the source data quantity (20), particularly with at least one hit string of the source data quantity (20) and Output of the at least one source data element (34, 38, 40) corresponding to a weight (w12, w13, w34) of the jointly weighted link (42, 44, 60) preferably of a hit likelihood of the query data element with the at least one source data element (34, 38, 40), wherein the weight (w12, w13, w34) of the weighted link (42, 44, and 60) is determined on the basis of at least one associative link (42, 44, and 60) as well as a further process, a system and a computer program product.
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A method for computer supported processing of source data elements of a source data quantity, the method comprising:
The method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:
The method in accordance with claim 2, wherein the determining a weighted link for each query data element further includes:
The method in accordance with claim 3, wherein the reference data element is identical to the query data element.
The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein each source data element is assigned a supplementary data element of a supplementary data quantity.
The method in accordance with claim 5, wherein the supplementary data element is provided in the output of each source data element.
The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein at least two query data elements are received, and for each query data element, at least one source data element is determined, and the source data elements are output in accordance with the weights of their weighted links with the respective query data elements.
The method in accordance with claim 7, further comprising generating an associative link with each source data element from a quantity of permutations of each of several query data elements that are linked to each source data element.
The method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising visually displaying one or more source data elements and/or associative links.
The method in accordance with claim 1, where at least one source data element is predetermined, and wherein the method further includes assigning a positive or negative potential to the at least one predetermined source data element.
The method in accordance with claim 10, wherein predetermination of the at least one source data element and the assigning of the positive or negative potential to the at least one predetermined source data element is manually performed by a user.
The method in accordance with claim 11, wherein predetermination of the at least one source data element and the assigning of the positive or negative potential by the user is performed before receiving the at least one query data element.
The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein determining the weighted link for each query data element further comprises:
The method in accordance with claim 13, further comprising repeating the determining steps in two or more iterations.
The method in accordance with claim 13, wherein each first source data element is output in accordance with the weight of an associated weighted link.
The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the source data quantity is expandable.
The method in accordance with claim 16, wherein additional source data elements and/or additional reference data elements of the reference data quantity are added and weighted links are generated between the additional source data elements and the corresponding additional reference data elements.
The method in accordance with claim 17, wherein weighted links are generated between the additional source data elements and existing reference data elements, and weighted links are generated between the additional reference data elements and existing source data elements.
The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein a weight wij of the weighted link between a reference data element Ri and a source data element Qj is calculated from the frequency of the occurrence of the reference data element Ri and the source data element Qj respectively in a supplementary data element as follows:
The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein a weight wij of the weighted link between a reference data element Ri and a source data element Qj is calculated as follows:
A method for computer supported processing of source data elements of a source data quantity, the method comprising:
A system for processing source data elements of a source data quantity, the system comprising:
The system in accordance with claim 22, further comprising a reference database with reference database elements, and wherein the microprocessor device is further configured to generate a weighted link with at least one source database element of the source database for each reference database element.
The system in accordance with claim 23, wherein the microprocessor device is further configured, during determining the links of the query data element with the at least one source database element, to determine at least one reference database element that corresponds to the query data element, and to assign the links of the at least one reference database element with the at least one source database element to the query data element.
The system in accordance with claim 24, further comprising a supplementary database having a supplementary database element that is assigned to each source database element.
The system in accordance with claim 25, wherein the output device is configured to provide the supplementary database element at the output of each source database element.
The system in accordance with claim 25, wherein the source database is expandable with additional source database elements, and the supplementary database is expandable with additional supplementary database elements.
The system in accordance with claim 27, wherein the microprocessor device is further configured to generate additional reference database elements with the additional source database elements and/or the additional supplementary database elements, and to generate weighted links between the additional source database elements and the corresponding reference database elements.
The system in accordance with claims 22, wherein the output device is configured to visually display one or more source data elements and/or associative link.
The system in accordance with claim 22, wherein the input device is further configured to predetermine at least one source data element, and to assign a positive or negative potential to the at least one source data element.
The system in accordance with claim 30, wherein the input device is configured so that the predetermination of the at least one source data element and the assignment of the positive or negative potential is manually performed by a user.
The system in accordance with claim 31, wherein the input device is configured so that the predetermination of the at least one source data element and the assignment of the positive or negative potential by the user can be performed before receiving the at least one query data element.
A computer program product which, when loaded into the memory of a data management system such as a computer, causes the data processing system to perform a process comprising steps to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.