Methods and systems for analyzing incident reports

An article comprising computer readable memory encoded with data for causing a computer to automatically process a plurality of documents containing text, the automatic processing including:

• receiving client subscriber information, the subscriber information including at least one scenario of interest to the client, the scenario of interest including at least one of a pattern of events and a participant;
• creating a client profile based on the received subscriber information, the client profile including an ordering of event representations that are of interest to the client;
• conceptually decomposing the text in the documents into decomposed data;
• applying event calculus axioms and formula to the client profile and the decomposed data to detect relevant information in the documents;
• and
• upon detecting such relevant information, extracting the relevant information from the documents.

A computer system comprising a computer programmed to automatically process a plurality of documents containing text, the automatic processing including:

• receiving client subscriber information, the subscriber information including at least one scenario of interest to the client, the scenario of interest including at least one of a pattern of events and a participant;
• creating a client profile based on the received subscriber information, the client profile including an ordering of event representations that are of interest to the client;
• conceptually decomposing the text in the documents into decomposed data;
• applying event calculus axioms and formula to the client profile and the decomposed data to detect relevant information in the documents;
• and
• upon detecting such relevant information, extracting the relevant information from the documents.