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Database analysis using a probabilistic ontology
AssigneeManning & Napier Information Services, LLC.
InventorsKillian Stoffel, Robert L. Wood
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AssigneeManning & Napier Information Services, LLC.
InventorsKillian Stoffel, Robert L. Wood
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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.
A method for displaying database relationships on a display device coupled to a processor, the method comprising
A computer-readable medium including instructions for displaying database relationships on a display device coupled to a processor, the computer-readable medium comprising
A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave including instructions for displaying database relationships on a display device coupled to a processor, the computer data signal comprising
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