JP2005115651A - Partner recognition system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a partner recognition system for automatically creating profiles of students, teachers, staff, parents, graduates, prospective enrollees, and managers. <P>SOLUTION: The partner recognition system for automatically creating profiles of individuals includes an indexing means constructed of a CPU 11 and a program in a ROM; a profile database 171 that stores information indexed by the indexing means; and a data source acquisition means constructed of the CPU 11 and a program in the ROM for acquiring data sources serving as the basis for indexing. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a partner who recognizes an education facility (Know Who System).

  In many countries, students with specialized knowledge are often employed in industry or government, or sent as researchers. Human resource supply relies on a powerful educational system.

  The development and penetration of computers and other advanced science and technology has contributed to the increase in diversity of departments and specialized fields. Schools are enrolled with students from many countries with other cultures, teachers are also foreigners, and the educational setting is diversifying. With these changes, it has become difficult for students, teachers, and staff to interact with each other as easily as before. Therefore, it is difficult for students and teachers to follow the speed of changes in social information.

  Another important change in education is the increase in distance education (or e-learning using an electronic conference utilization system). Many students receive distance education in all grades, and these students can contact teachers and classmates via the Internet, email, and other digital forms of communication.

  However, many of these students participate in classes from remote locations, making it much more difficult to meet and interact with teachers and peers. It is also more difficult for these students to judge their quality before choosing a class.

  Schools are making efforts to overcome these problems by providing online information on class materials, student / teacher lists, and holding digital meetings. Unfortunately, these manual approaches tend to be inefficient and labor intensive, and information such as that described above quickly becomes outdated. Searchers of information also need a lot of work to identify other users who can communicate with each other or to provide their own identification information to other users.

  In recent years, attempts have been made to solve these problems by creating a partner recognition system. This person recognition system can automatically create profiles of participants who are using the current document. When a user has a question, writes a document, or reads a topic, the system provides the answer. Or share it with the document. This partner recognition system can also recommend other users who are likely to give additional information. The user can initiate communication with the recommended user using email, instant messenger or other tools.

  Traditionally, several software vendors have created a partner recognition system for business use, but these systems are not suitable for educational settings. Current systems tend to assume a hierarchyless setup, but universities have very specific hierarchies (within user groups and among user groups) to consider. Current partner recognition systems can create profiles from email systems, document vaults, and other corporate intellectual sources, but allow for clear educational resources such as transcripts, schedules, and library records. Not.

  In addition, the current partner recognition system is generally premised on information exchange between individuals, and is unsuitable for users of a group connected to an educational facility for a wide range of purposes. For these reasons, new solutions for educational facilities are needed.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a partner recognition system suitable for an educational site capable of automatically creating profiles of students, teachers, staff, parents, graduates, prospective students, and managers. It is in.

  The partner recognition system of the present invention is to automatically create a personal profile in an educational facility or the like, an index assigning means, and a profile database storing the information indexed by the index assigning means, And a data source acquisition means for acquiring a data source as a basis for indexing.

  The partner recognition system is also known as Expert Locators or Expert Finders. By using the partner recognition system of the present invention, the user can easily obtain information (personal relationship information) about a predetermined person. In addition, it is possible to assist in making a judgment with reference to the information. In addition, the partner recognition system is helpful when contacting other people when interacting with people.

  In the partner recognition system of the present invention, the user uses the user interface to determine which part of the profile should be shared information (for example, which should be subject to recognition processing), which individual or which group to share. You can choose.

  A user (or a user belonging to a given group) can have an interface from the user interface to a system that has the capability to support specific needs.

  The partner recognition system of the present invention can store profiles of students, teachers, school staff, graduates, parents, prospective enrollees, and managers (and other groups such as teaching assistants, donors). Profiles include work, career, interests, membership information, hobbies, preferences, friendships, goals, etc., and can also include contact information, skills, and experience.

  In the partner recognition system of the present invention, newcomers or people with similar profiles can be introduced as a means of promoting the community in the facility. The search results are personal to the searcher and support visualization of the results. After looking for other members of the school community, users can initiate communication using email, instant messaging, phone calls, or other methods (depending on the restrictions set in their profile by the other members) . Each group of users can find many ways to use the proposed system. In addition, a chart showing some of its usage can be attached separately. This can also be used as a partial function list for designing various user interfaces.

  In the partner recognition system of the present invention, documents related to individuals such as creators, editors, and viewers are indexed, aggregated, classified, tagged, clustered, and summarized to automatically create a profile. . These profiles are stored on a centralized server.

  In the partner recognition system of the present invention, the index assigning means may include at least one of a natural language processing algorithm, a pattern matching means, an ontology processing means, a taxonomic processing means, and an automatic summary processing means. Ontology is a technique that represents a system of concepts such as vocabulary and vocabulary relationships in order to perform advanced searches.

  In the partner recognition system of the present invention, the data source includes communication data (e-mail, instant message log, etc.), class materials (notebook, homework, test, submission, evaluation, etc.), academic achievement (application, schedule, transcript) , Grades, etc.).

  In the partner recognition system of the present invention, the data source acquisition means can generate the data source by interaction with another information system (library system, Web server, etc.).

  10. The partner recognition system according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the partner recognition system of the present invention comprises an editing means for an administrator or a user to manually edit a profile.

  Users can act as a filter for their own information and can approve or reject proposals made by the auto-profiling means. Users can choose which parts of their profile to display with their respective user groups and determine new groups as needed.

  In the partner recognition system of the present invention, the editing unit allows the user to pass the additional document to the indexing unit, and the user can create different versions of the profile.

  In the partner recognition system of the present invention, the user can include browsing interface means for communicating with the profile. Each group of users can be configured to have a different interface to the profile. For example, the browsing interface means may provide a different interface to the user based on the user status (student, teacher, staff, graduate). Further, the browsing interface means may allow the user to search for profiles of other users, or the browsing interface means allows the user to visualize the profiles of many users at once. You may comprise as follows.

  The browsing interface means can be configured to actively present a profile of people similar to the user.

  In the partner recognition system of the present invention, the user can further include a search unit that can search a profile related to a query, a document, or a profile, and the user can use a communication tool (e-mail creation unit, instant messaging creation unit). Communication means capable of connecting to other users using electronic conference participation means).

  Particularly suitable for education, the partner recognition system can automatically create profiles of students, teachers, staff, parents, graduates, prospective students, and managers.

  A partner recognition system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1 and the explanatory diagram of FIG. The partner recognition system can be constructed by a software system that can be installed on a computer or dedicated hardware.

  In FIG. 1, the partner recognition system 1 includes a CPU 11, a ROM 12, a RAM 13, an operation / display unit 14, a printing device 15, a communication unit 16, and a storage device 17.

  The CPU 11 controls the partner recognition system 1 as a whole. The ROM 12 stores an operating system and various drivers. In the RAM 13, algorithms and tools necessary for automatically creating a profile are called and stored from, for example, the storage device 17. That is, the RAM 13 stores an index assigning module, an editing module, a search module, a communication module, and an interface module. The operation / display unit 14 includes an operation unit 141 such as a keyboard mouse and a display unit 142 such as an LED. The printing device 15 is a printer, and the communication unit 16 is a communication interface. The storage device 17 is a storage such as a hard disk, and includes a profile D / B 171 and a normal storage unit 172.

  The operation of the partner recognition system 1 of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to the system explanatory diagram of FIG. In FIG. 2, the indexing module MD1 allows access to other data sources on the network such as email D / B, WEB log, calendar, academic achievement, class materials, etc. via the communication unit 16 of FIG. And a profile is created for the data source by performing set processing, cluster processing, classification processing, summarization processing, and the like. The created profile is stored in a profile D / B 171 (indicated by STRG in FIG. 2).

  The contents of the profile D / B are shown in FIGS. Student profiles include email, instant messaging, homework submission, class handouts, class assignments, grade reports, calendar entry, web pages viewed, library activities, systems and interactions with other users, And by indexing other documents created or viewed by the teacher.

  Teacher profiles include email, instant messaging, class handouts, class assignments and tests, homework submission, grade reports, evaluation forms, published papers, calendar entries, web pages viewed, systems and other Created by indexing other documents created or viewed by the teacher and their interaction with the user.

  Staff profiles index emails, employee directories, instant messages, calendar entries, viewed web pages, interactions with the system and other users, and other documents created or viewed by the staff To be created.

  Alumni profiles can be chosen by the graduates to have the system index a part of their personal file, but are based on the material when the graduate was a student. Graduates can manually add information about their work location. The system can index interactions between the graduate and users of the system or other systems.

  Parent profiles can directly cause the system to index portions of personal documents for their interests, hobbies, etc., but are directly associated with the appropriate student profiles. Parents can manually add information about where a student is working. The system can index some interaction between its parent and users of this system or other systems.

  Prospective enrollee profiles are based on admission materials submitted by potential students. The prospective enrollee can also choose to have the system index a portion of their personal file. The system indexes the interactions between the candidate and users of the system or other systems.

  The management profile is created based on materials submitted by the management. The system can also index interactions with its manager's website and users of the system or other systems. Managers can manually add details such as contact address, job offers, etc. The profile D / B includes a profile created by the indexing module MD1. This profile D / B is accessed by the interface module MD2, the editing module MD3, the search module MD4, and the communication module MD5.

  The user can browse, search, visualize, connect, and share with the interface module MD2, and can access profiles of both the user and other users. The interface module MD2 can be operated by a Web server or a dedicated client application. The interface module MD2 can provide a predetermined function to the user based on the status and priority.

  The editing module MD3 allows the user to browse and edit his / her profile using the operation / display unit 14 of FIG. The user can filter the information provided by the indexing module MD1, supplement the information with personal data and documents, or provide different levels of disclosure for different groups and individuals.

  The search module MD4 allows the user to find another user. This module accepts various queries and searches for specific individuals or individuals with relevant profiles. The user can browse the results as a ranked list using various criteria, or use various visualization tools to view them in multiple dimensions each time.

  The communication module MD5 allows users to communicate with other users, their known persons, and persons identified using the partner recognition system. Users can choose to share their profiles with other individuals and groups. Users can also initiate communications using email, instant messaging, interactive forums, or other communication tools.

It is a block diagram which shows the other party recognition system of one Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the process in the other party recognition system of one Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows a part of content of profile D / B. It is explanatory drawing which shows the other part of the content of profile D / B.

Explanation of symbols

1 Partner recognition system 11 CPU
12 ROM
13 RAM
14 Operation / Display Unit 15 Printing Device 16 Communication Unit 17 Storage Device 141 Operation Unit 142 Display Unit 171 Profile D / B
172 Normal storage unit

Claims (12)

A partner recognition system that automatically creates personal profiles,
Indexing means;
A profile database that stores the information indexed by the indexing means;
A data source obtaining means for obtaining a data source as a basis for indexing;
A partner recognition system characterized by comprising:   The indexing means includes at least one of a natural language processing algorithm, pattern matching means, ontology processing means, taxonomic processing means, and automatic summarization processing means. The partner recognition system described.   The partner recognition system according to claim 1, wherein the data source includes at least one of communication data, class materials, and academic achievement.   The partner recognition system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the data source acquisition unit generates the data source through interaction with another information system.   5. The partner recognition system according to claim 1, further comprising editing means for an administrator or a user to manually edit the profile.   5. The partner recognition system according to claim 4, wherein the editing unit allows a user to pass an additional document to the indexing unit or to create a different version of the profile.   6. The partner recognition system according to claim 1, further comprising browsing interface means for a user to communicate with the profile.   7. The partner recognition system according to claim 6, wherein the browsing interface means provides a different interface to the user based on the status of the user, and actively presents a profile of people similar to the user. .   The partner recognition system according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the browsing interface means allows a user to search for profiles of other users or to visualize the profiles of many users at once.   9. The partner recognition system according to claim 1, further comprising search means for allowing a user to search a profile related to a query, a document, or a profile.   10. The partner recognition system according to claim 1, wherein the data source acquisition unit further includes a communication unit that allows a user to connect to another user using a communication tool.   The partner recognition system according to any one of 1 to 10, which is applied to an educational facility.

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