Patent Document ID: 8577899
Application ID: 12718610

Base Claim:
1. A method for supporting curation of items in a searchable knowledge base, said method comprising: mining one or more search queries of the searchable knowledge base, wherein each of the one or more search queries includes a plurality of the items, each item including a title identifying an issue and/or topic addressed by the item and further including a plurality of posts from users of the knowledge base system, each post relevant to the issue and/or topic of the item; determining one or more pairs of items using a processor, wherein each of the one or more pairs of items include a correlation value exceeding a threshold, wherein the correlation value for the each of the one or more pairs of items is based upon a frequency the items of the each of the one or more pairs of items co-occur within the one or more search queries; and providing at least one of the one or more pairs of items to a curator, wherein the curator reviews the one or more pairs of items; wherein the one or more mined search queries are re-run before determining the one or more pairs or items, and wherein the one or more mined search queries are saved within a history database, each of the saved search queries corresponding to a previously performed search of the searchable knowledge base, identifying the search terms of the previously performed search, and identifying items of the searchable knowledge base returned in response to the previously performed search.

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Claim 8:
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the items in the knowledge base each correspond to a record of information on a specific issue or topic relevant to a topic covered by the knowledge base.