Patent ID: 11887018
Assignee: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the ontology comprises a plurality of elements, each of the elements comprise a plurality of ontological terms, the ontology defines ontological vectors comprising an ontological term from each of two or more of the plurality of elements, each of the ontological vectors describes a hypothesis, and the method further comprises:
forming an ontology space wherein each dimension of the ontology space comprises one or more of the elements of the ontology;
populating the ontology space by adding the ontological vectors identified in the documents such that a weight or each point in the ontology space is proportional to a number of ontological vectors associated with that point found in the documents;
using an optimization algorithm to rank points or clusters of points in the ontology space based on the weights of the points or the clusters of points; and
outputting the ranked list of points or clusters of points, each point or cluster of points corresponding to one or more ontological vectors describing a hypothesis.