Inventors:
Alianna Maren - McLean VA, US
Stanley Campbell - Fairfax Station VA, US
Dennis Perry - Annandale VA, US
Bao Nguyen - Vienna VA, US
International Classification:
G06F007/00
Abstract:
A knowledge discovery apparatus and method that extracts both specifically desired as well as pertinent and relevant information to query from a corpus of multiple elements that can be structured, unstructured, and/or semi-structured, along with imagery, video, speech, and other forms of data representation, to generate a set of outputs with a confidence metric applied to the match of the output against the query. The invented apparatus includes a multi-level architecture, along with one or more feedback loop(s) from any level n to any lower level n−1 so that a user can control the output of this knowledge discovery method via providing inputs to the utility function.