Assissted Knowledge Discovery and Publication System and Method

Abstract

A system and method is presented for knowledge discovery that incorporate both human and computers to index, process, and communicate and share the knowledge and electronic contents. It also provides a platform for launching unlimited number of qualified and content reviewed publishing/broadcasting ventures. The system assists individuals for faster and more efficient discovery/creation of new and useful knowledge, and valuable artistic content. It also provides incentives to the owners of the ventures and a method for rewarding or compensating all contributors.

1 . A method of knowledge discovery and publication comprising:
 a. identifying at least one subject matter for exploration;   b. designating at least one online shop, for publishing and broadcasting electronic contents, corresponding to at least one of said at least one subject matter;   c. finding at least one person having expertise in one of said at least one subject matter;   d. receiving at least one electronic content from at least one creator, related to at least one of said at least one subject matter;   e. providing a first computer implemented routine, having access to human knowledge repositories, configured to screen all the received at least one electronic content, and initially assess the merits of the at least one electronic content for being reviewed by at least one of a second computer implemented routine and at least one of said at least one expert, for inclusion in at least one of said at least one online shop;   f. providing incentive to at least some of all contributors, including the at least one creator and said at least one person expert for administering the at least one online shop and reviewing said at least one electronic content, according to a predefined arrangement; and   g. publishing the reviewed at least one electronic content, in the designated at least one online shop, corresponding to the at least one subject matter of said at least one electronic content, for viewing by other creators and users, whereby to accelerate the rate of knowledge discovery and substantially increase the amount of credible and useful knowledge.   
   
   
       2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising a searching software agent for identifying the subject matters for exploration and related titles by searching through predetermined corpuses, thereby being able to provide a large number of the subject matters for exploration and the related titles for the corresponding online publishing shops. 
   
   
       3 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising a searching software agent for identifying names and contact information of experts and authorities having expertise and credentials related to the subject matters, thereby identifying, for each subject matter, a number of experts and authorities, for acting as one or more role of a reviewer, editor, administrator, and shop owner of one or more publication shop having the subject matter for exploration related to their expertise. 
   
   
       4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising selling at least one of the publishing shops with predetermined conditions, each said shop having the title related to at least one of the subject matter for exploration, to at least one person interested in owning and operating at least one of the publishing shops, wherein each said shop has the right to use the first computer implemented routine for screening and assessing the electronic content having a subject matter related to that shop. 
   
   
       5 . A computer implemented method of indexing ontological subjects comprising:
 a. providing a plurality of ontological subjects;   b. providing access to at least one collection of electronic content by way of electronic communication;   c. evaluating numerically an association value for a selected number of pairs of ontological subjects, using data information of co-occurrence of each of said pairs in said at least one collection of electronic content;   d. selecting a first set of ontological subject, having at least one member, and selecting a first associated sets of ontological subject, each of said first associated set having at least one member, wherein each of the first associated sets is corresponded to a member of the first set, wherein each member of each set of said first associated sets having association value grater than a predetermined threshold with at least one member of the first set;   e. indexing the members of the first set and the members of said first associated sets in a multilayer index with indices, by an indexing method comprising;
 i. indexing the members of the first set wherein indices are configured to show places of the members in the first layer of said multilayer index; 
 ii. indexing the members of the first associated sets in next layer of the index, wherein indices are configured to show places of the members in that layer and to indicate the association of a member of the first set to the members of the corresponded first associated set; 
 iii. marking an ontological subject in its current layer of the index as dormant, if said ontological subject has been indexed in previous layer and if an ontological subject is not indexed in previous layer but is a member of more than one of the first associated sets, mark said ontological subject as dormant everywhere that appear in its current layer of the index except in one place in its current layer of the index; 
   f. selecting a second set of ontological subject, having at least one member, from the ontological subjects of the first associated sets which are not marked as dormant, i.e. non-dormant, in the index, and select a second associated sets, each of said second associated sets having at least one member, wherein each of the second associated sets is corresponded to a member of the second set, wherein each member of each set of said second associated sets having association value grater than a predetermined threshold with at least one member of the second set;   g. indexing the members of the second associated sets in next layer of the index wherein indices are configured to show places of the members in their current layer and to indicate the association of a member of the second set to the members of corresponded second associated set, and marking an ontological subject in its current layer of the index as dormant, if said ontological subject has been indexed in one of the previous layers and if the ontological subject is not indexed in one of the previous layers but is a member of more than one of the second associated sets, mark the said ontological subject as dormant everywhere that appear in its current layer of the index except in one place in its current layer of the index; and   h. repeating the step f to form a next set of ontological subjects from the not marked as dormant, i.e. non-dormant, members of the last associated sets of ontological subject and to form a next associated sets and indexing the ontological subject of the said next associated sets by repeating the step g, wherein the term the second is replaced with the third, the forth and so on, whereby to uniquely index the desired number of ontological subjects in the context of said at least one collection of electronic contents, and wherein each ontological subject positioned once in the index as non dormant; and   i. storing the index of the ontological subject on a storage device.   
   
   
       6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein said except one place, for indexing the non-dormant ontological subject, is chosen in its current layer such that the non-dormant ontological subject has the highest association value with its previous layer member of the ontological subject set. 
   
   
       7 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the index provides necessary information in indexing so that the marked dormant ontological subjects can point to the place in the index that said marked ontological subject is a non-dormant ontological subject. 
   
   
       8 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein at least one of the associated sets of ontological subject contains at least one non-dormant member. 
   
   
       9 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein number of members of each of said associated sets is a predetermined number. 
   
   
       10 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the plurality of ontological subject contains all existing ontological subjects of the universe to that time. 
   
   
       11 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the at least one collection of electronic content includes collection of all electronic contents in the Internet. 
   
   
       12 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the at least one collection of electronic content includes contents of an Internet search engine database. 
   
   
       13 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein said association value of the pair of ontological subject is evaluated using the count information by querying at least one Internet search engine and getting the co-occurrence count of the pair from the search engine. 
   
   
       14 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the ontological subject index is represented with a corresponding ontological subject map, wherein each indexed ontological subject is shown by a node in the map, configured to demonstrate if the corresponding ontological subject is marked dormant, and wherein each node corresponding to a not marked dormant, i.e. non dormant, ontological subject, is uniquely positioned in the ontological subject map, whereby providing a tool for visual navigation and focusing on a desired particular place of the map. 
   
   
       15 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the associated set of the ontological subject is represented by at least one form of spectral graph having ontological subjects in one axis and showing the association value of the members of the set in another axis. 
   
   
       16 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the ontological subject index is used for identifying at least one of, related subject, most important subjects related to another subject, indirect relation of two or more subjects, whereby to increase efficiency in searching and acquiring new knowledge. 
   
   
       17 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the ontological subject index is used to guide and show to a user routs for exploration in search of new knowledge, thereby assisting the user in knowledge discovery. 
   
   
       18 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein said ontological subject index is updated periodically or continually. 
   
   
       19 . The method of  claim 5 , further comprising:
 a. finding explicit form of relations of association between each of selected pairs of ontological subjects by searching through the at least one collection of contents; and   b. recording and storing the said explicit forms of relations in a database configured for easy retrieval.   
   
   
       20 . The method of  claim 19 , wherein said database of explicit form of relations of association is updated periodically or continually. 
   
   
       21 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a. providing a reference ontological subject index built from a selected list of ontological subjects and a selected collection of content;   b. building an ontological subject index for the received electronic content, from the ontological subjects contains in the received content; wherein the index has at least one layer and has at least one ontological subject at its first layer;   c. comparing the ontological subject index of the received electronic content with the reference ontological subject index by matching the first layer at least one ontological subject to position of the same at least one ontological subjects in the reference index;   d. scoring the merit of the received content by a predetermined formula, wherein at least one of the variables in the formula is the number of similar ontological subjects in the associated set of the first level at least one ontological subject; and   e. passing the content for reviewing if the score is higher than a predetermined criteria, whereby to screen a large number of received electronic content automatically before reviewing.   
   
   
       22 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the ontological subject index is used as reference for scoring the merit of an electronic content in terms of validity, novelty and importance. 
   
   
       23 . The method of  claim 21 , or  22 , wherein ontological subject map is also used for performing said methods. 
   
   
       24 . A system for knowledge discovery and publication of contents comprising:
 a. a database of a plurality of subject matters for exploration;   b. a plurality of online publishing/broadcasting shop each having a title related to at least one of said subject matters;   c. at least one reference indexed database representing an ontological subject map that contains a desired number of ontological subjects related to said subject matters, wherein said ontological subject map indicating the association of each ontological subject to all other desired number of ontological subjects ordered and spread in the map by a predefined method based on their association value to each other, and wherein said database of the map can be derived by having access to a collection of contents having at least one content;   d. means for receiving at least one electronic content from creators, assigning at least one possible publishing shop for said at least one electronic content, and building at least one ontological subject map using said received at least one electronic content;   e. at least one software program configured to automatically measure at least one merit of said received at least one electronic content, by comparing predefined parameters and functions of said at least one ontological subject map of said content with said at least one reference ontological subject map, and passing the content, if the at least one merit meets a predetermined criteria, for publication to said at least one of assigned shop; and   f. means for making said received at least one electronic content available for public access; whereby to publish a large number of credible and useful knowledge in short period of time.   
   
   
       25 . The system of  claim 24 , further including: a database of persons' names and contact information, each person having expertise or authority in at least one of said subject matters. 
   
   
       26 . The system of  claim 25 , further including: means for communicating with the authorities and the creators, thereby reviewing the received electronic content, by at least one authority from the said database of authorities, and assisting the creator by informing about the assessment and status of the received electronic content. 
   
   
       27 . The system of  claim 24 , wherein each said online publishing shop having at least one editor from one of human or intelligent software agent, configured to be able to review an electronic content, to select some of the received contents for publishing according to predetermined criteria. 
   
   
       28 . The system of  claim 24 , further including software means configured to rank the importance of subject matters and online publishing shops by several predetermined factors, at least one of the factors is selected from popularity, position in the reference ontological map, members of the associated set, and number of non-dormant members in the associated set, of the ontological subject corresponding to the subject matter. 
   
   
       29 . The system of  claim 24 , wherein said at least one reference index being updated periodically or continually, and said system further including at least one database, also being updated periodically or continually, having indexed explicit form of relations of association between each of selected pairs of ontological subjects. 
   
   
       30 . The system of  claim 29 , further including software artifact configured to perform
 a. detecting and recognizing:
 i. inclusion of at least one new ontological subject in the said updated databases or inclusion of a new ontological subject in the associated set of an ontological subject; 
 ii. position changing or displacement of an ontological subject in said updated databases; and 
   b. ranking the importance of the said new ontological subject and re-ranking the importance of the displaced ontological subject.   
   
   
       31 . The system of  claim 30 , wherein said at least one new ontological subject, having importance factor higher than a threshold, is included in the database of subject matters for exploration and designating an online shop based on a predefined criteria. 
   
   
       32 . The system of  claim 30 , further including a software artifacts configured to inform at least some of users and creators, about the inclusion of at least one new ontological subject to the at least one reference index, or displacement of an ontological subject in the reference ontological subject index; thereby notifying the users about an important potential discovery. 
   
   
       33 . The system of  claim 24 , further including a platform for sale configured to sell the publishing shops with predetermined conditions, each said shop having the title related to at least one of the subject matter for exploration, to at least one person interested in owning and operating at least one of the publishing shops. 
   
   
       34 . The system of  claim 28 , further including a platform for sale configured to sell the publishing shops with predetermined conditions, each said shop having the title related to at least one of the subject matter for exploration, to at least one person interested in owning and operating at least one of the publishing shops, wherein the price depends on the importance rank of the subject matter. 
   
   
       35 . The system of  claim 24 , wherein further including a compensation platform configured to reward and compensates at least some of persons and entities who contributed to provide the contents and operate the system. 
   
   
       36 . The system of  claim 24  and in accordance with  claims 26 ,  27 ,  33 ,  34 , and  35 , wherein said compensation platform to reward and compensate said those contributed including, if applicable, at least some of creators whose electronic content being published by at least one of the online publishing shop, at least some of authorities who reviewed at least one electronic content, at least some of administrators, at least some of said editors, and at least some of the owners of the online publishing shops. 
   
   
       37 . The system of  claim 24 , wherein the system is distributed and at least one part of the system is physically located in, or performs from, different location from the rest of the system.