Computing the relevance of a document to concepts not specified in the document

A method for conceptual analysis of a document, the method comprising:

• accessing, by a processor, a concept graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, each node representing a concept and each edge representing a known relation between two concepts;
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• computing, by the processor, a relevance of the document to concepts in the concept graph, the computing comprising:
• receiving a priori information about the document including concepts extracted from the document, probabilities of each of the concepts extracted from the document being located in a pool of concepts extracted from the document, and confidence scores corresponding to each of the concepts extracted from the document, wherein the concepts extracted from the document include a subset of the concepts in the concept graph;
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• combining the a priori information and the concept graph to generate a posteriori information that includes a reverse index that indicates a likelihood that the document is related to each of the concepts in the concept graph, the reverse index accessible to a computer system for determining a relevance of the document to a query received from an agent external to the computer system,
• the combining including calculating a relevance of the document to concepts in the graph not extracted from the document based on a degree of association in the concept graph between the concepts extracted from the document and the concepts in the graph not extracted from the document.