Patent ID: 7219105

Claim:
A method of profiling an entity, said method comprising: retrieving information from at least one information source using said entity as a search criteria; clustering the retrieved information to identify contexts related to said entity, wherein said contexts are represented by a set of documents; retrieving information corresponding to each identified context from at least one information source; selecting features from the information retrieved at both of the retrieving steps to identify concepts associated with said entity within each identified context; structuring the identified concepts within said each identified context by classifying said identified concepts into exactly four classification sets; ranking said identified concepts within each set; and profiling said entity by presenting the top ranked concepts within each set to a user, wherein the contexts are identified by finding a set of the words or phases that occur frequently with said entity and that mutually do not appear together in documents in the information source, and wherein said contexts are identified by finding prominent nodes, that comprise said entity, in an ontology or a taxonomy.