The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing users access to information of interest.
The number of networked devices in local area networks such as home networks is on the rise, and so is the amount of data stored on them. Typically, home network users store and access several types of content (such as audio, video, image and other data files) in different formats on/via their home devices. In addition to accessing these, home users also commonly access audio/video broadcast data streams via broadcast television or cable networks.
Further, the amount of information available on sources such as external networks, the Internet (e.g., the World Wide Web), etc. is continually on the rise. For example, it is very likely that a user can find useful information on the Internet related to at least some of the data stored on the devices in the user's home network. It is highly likely that the user can find large quantities of such related information in different formats (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) via multiple sources.
However, there is no system available that would allow a user to access such related information easily and seamlessly. The only way a user can achieve this is by manually performing a search for the desired information using an Internet search engine or by directly accessing a website (through a Web browser) that the user believes may contain such related information. Thus, the user is forced to comprehend and analyze large quantities of information to identify/access the exact information the user is looking for.
There are existing approaches in which a user can obtain information in a network of resources. In one approach, the user requests the information. The user specifies information using keywords and then browses the information to find the piece of information that satisfies the user's needs. However, specifying keywords using devices without keyboards, such as consumer electronics (CEs) devices, can be a tedious task.
Another approach involves a configuration that uses a TV and a PC. The PC analyzes the subtitles of the TV program and categorizes the program as general, news, medical, etc. The hierarchy of categories is fixed and built from questions posed to broadcast TV viewers. Content of a particular program is mapped to a fixed number of categories. The user can view additional information only when the content matches one of the specified categories. Queries are linked to fixed sources, limiting the amount of information that can be retried for the user. Further, the PC is required and the system cannot function when the PC is turned off. There is, therefore, a need for a method and a system for analyzing and obtaining information of interest to the user, without limiting specific sources of information.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for extracting a sentence from on incoming stream of text corresponding to a program is provided, the method comprising: retrieving end-of-sentence punctuation marks for a language identified for the incoming stream of text; locating punctuation marks in the incoming stream of text that match one of more of the retrieved end-of-sentence punctuation marks; comparing characters around the located punctuation marks to a list of word-punctuation pairs for the identified language to determine when a located punctuation mark is a valid end-of-sentence punctuation marks as opposed to an invalid one not to be considered an end-of-sentence punctuation mark despite its presence in the retrieved end-of-sentence punctuation marks for the identified language; and for any located valid punctuation marks, identifying a group of words between located valid punctuation marks as sentences.
In another embodiment of the present invention, a method for identifying a language of an incoming stream of text corresponding to a program is provided, the method comprising: comparing the incoming stream of text against one or more character sets, each of the character sets identifying characters used in a different language; identifying stop words in the incoming stream of text and comparing the identified stop words with stop words corresponding to one or more languages; and identifying a particular language for the incoming stream of text based on a marched character set and identified stop words corresponding to the particular language.
In another embodiment of the present invention, a method for validating a topic extracted from a stream of text corresponding to a program is provided, the method comprising: locally validating the topic by comparing the topic against one or more local word lists; and remotely validating the topic by submitting the topic as a query to an Internet search engine and comparing the number of results received from the Internet search engine to a predefined threshold.
In another embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus is provided comprising: a closed-caption decoder configured to decode a raw closed caption stream for a program and produce closed caption text; a language detection module configured to determine a language for the closed caption text; a sentence detection module configured to determine sentences within the closed caption text; a tagger configured to tag keywords based in the closed caption text based on the determined language and based on determined sentences; a topic extractor configured to extract topics based on the tagged keywords; and a validation module configured to validate the extracted topics.
The present invention provides a method and a system for analyzing and obtaining information of interest to a user, without limiting specific sources of information. Potential information that the user may be interested in is determined by monitoring the user's interactions with a device in a local network of devices, connected to an external network. Such a device can be a CE device in a local area network (e.g., a home network that is connected to the Internet).
In one implementation, this involves receiving close-captioned programming including closed-caption (CC) information, and analyzing the closed-caption information for key information indicating user interests. The key information is then used to find related information from sources of information such as the Internet, which the user may potentially be interested in.
On a typical CE device such as a TV, in the absence of a keyboard, it is difficult for a user to search for information on the Internet by entering keywords. If a user is watching a TV program, that is a good indication that the user is interested in the content of the TV program. Therefore, the content of the TV program is analyzed by gathering and analyzing text received as CC information for the TV program. Further, contextual information is gathered from the information about the channel being watched. The CC information and the contextual information can be combined and used to make recommendations to the user about information the user may potentially be interested in.
The gathered information is used to determine one or more keywords of potential interest to the user. The keywords are then used to search for related information on the Internet. For example, if the user is watching a news coverage involving Baltimore, the word “Baltimore” is extracted as a keyword. That keyword is used to form a query to search the Internet by using a search engine to find information, such as websites that include information about Baltimore city or Baltimore Ravens, etc.
The search results are presented to the user as recommendations, comprising potential search queries which may be selected by the user and executed to find further information on the Internet that may be of interest to the user. For example, while the user is watching a documentary on Antarctica on a TV, the keyword Antarctica is selected as a keyword and a search on the Internet returns “polar bears” as a recommendation of potential interest to the user. The user can then choose that recommendation to find more information about polar bears. If so, a query for “polar bears” is sent to a search engine and the results are displayed for the user.
Searching is not limited to a predetermined or fixed number of categories or queries or information sources. In one example, keywords are identified based on the CC information for searching. The keywords may be suggested to the user, wherein upon user selection, additional information is obtained using search engines that search available sources on the Internet (different websites available to the search engines), rather than a predetermined and/or a fixed number of sources such as one or more particular websites.
The devices 20 and 30, respectively, can implement the UPnP protocol for communication there between. Those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is useful with other network communication protocols (e.g., Jini, HAVi, IEEE 1394, etc.). Further, the network 10 can be a wired network, a wireless network, or a combination thereof.
A system that implements a process for analyzing TV CC information receives a TV signal as input. The channel being viewed by the user is monitored and corresponding CC information that is a part of the TV signal is analyzed. Then, a set of keywords are determined which capture the gist of what is being viewed by the user.
The monitor 201 monitors the TV/cable signal and determines channel information that is accessed/viewed by the user. That information includes CC information which is analyzed to extract words that capture the context, by utilizing the example process 300 in
Using Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information, which includes information about TV programs on cable TV, satellite TV, etc., the name of the channel being viewed, is used to frame the queries in steps 316, 318, along with the channel and program information. For example, when the user is viewing the “Panorama” program on BBC America, the words “Panorama” and “BBC America” are appended to the extracted keywords to provide related information in the context of the channel and program for searching.
Further, the extracted keywords can be converted into different languages and used for searching to find additional information on the Internet 50. Further, converting keywords, as opposed to sentences, from one language to the other is simple and can be done using a language-to-language dictionary. This is beneficial to users who may understand only a minor portion of the language in the TV program being watched.
In this embodiment, the Keyword Extractor 212 not only relies on information from the Proper Noun Detector 206 and the Indexer 208, but also uses information from the Phrase Extractor 214 to obtain keywords. The Phrase Extractor 214 includes a phrase identifier function that identifies important phrases using frequency and co-occurrence information recorded by the Indexer 208, along with a set of rules. This is important in identifying multi-word phrases such as “United Nations”, “Al Qaeda,” etc.
In operation, the gathered CC text is first passed through the phrase identifier to capture phrases, and then the captured phrases are indexed. The phrase identifier internally maintains three lists: a list of proper nouns, a dictionary, and a list of stop words. The phrase identifier uses an N-gram based approach to phrase extraction, in which conceptually, to capture a phrase of length ‘N’ words, a window of size ‘N’ words is slid across the text and all possible phrases (of length ‘N’ words) are collected. Then they are passed through the following set of three rules to filter out meaningless phrases:
The Phrase Extractor 214 includes a term extractor function which extracts the highest score terms and phrases from the index. The terms and phrases are presented to the user and can be used for further searching to provide additional information of interest to the user.
Alternatively, the Phrase Extractor 214 includes a natural language processing (NLP) tagger and a set of extraction rules to extract important phrases. In operation, the NLP tagger tags each word in the closed caption text with its part-of-speech (i.e. whether the word is a ‘noun,’ ‘adjective,’ ‘proper noun,’ etc.) The extraction rules define the kinds of sequences of such tags that are important. For example, a rule can be to extract phrases which are “a sequence of more than one ‘proper nouns’” and another rule can be to extract “a sequence of one or more ‘adjectives’ followed by one or more ‘nouns’.” The Phrase Extractor applies these rules to the text tagged by the part-of-speech tagger and extracts phrases that follow these sequences. It can also be used to extract single word keywords by using appropriate rules.
In one example, in
Although, in the examples provided herein, a TV is used to receive closed-caption information, the present invention can be applied to other devices (e.g., music player, etc.) that receive information that can be used for analysis to determine and search for information of interest to the user, according to the present invention.
Further, although in
Some natural language processing techniques, such as “part of speech tagging”, require a complete sentence to be analyzed in order to correctly tag it. In such instances, it becomes important for the system to be able to parse an incoming stream of text into complete sentences, as opposed to merely looking for keywords or phrases. In an embodiment of the present invention, a sentence detection module is provided to perform this process.
The sentence detection module can use language specific end-of-sentence punctuation marks to locate the end of a sentence. For example, if the stream of text is in English, the module can use punctuation marks such as ‘.’, ‘?’, and ‘!’, all of which typically (though not exclusively) signify the end of a sentence. If the stream of text is in Spanish, a different set of end-of-sentence punctuation marks can be used, such as ‘.’, ‘,’, and ‘
’. Then, a language specific list of word-punctuation pairs that do not constitute the end of a sentence are used to check for “false positives”, in other words situations where the typical end of sentence punctuation marks actually do not constitute an end of a sentence, such as ‘Mr.’, ‘Mrs.’, ‘Ms.’, ‘P.O.’, etc. If no such false positives are found, then the process can assume that an end of a sentence has been correctly identified.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the system can be configured to detect the language of an incoming stream of text. This is a useful adjunct to the sentence detection module embodiment described above, but also is independently useful because a number of natural language processing techniques, such as “part of speech tagging” and “stop words” are language-dependent. Therefore, in order to collect high-quality topics and to avoid selecting bad topics, it can be important to determine the language of the text.
A number of factors can be use to determine the language in the language detection module. The first such factor is character sets. There are certain characters that are unique to certain languages. In the easy case, some languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew have character sets made up entirely or nearly entirely of unique characters. In the harder cases, some languages, such as Spanish, French, and English, can have many common characters but at least a few unique characters to each language (such as é or ñ for Spanish). Identification of these unique characters in the stream of text can be used as an indicator of the language. Of course, such a factor may not be completely determinative. There may be some instances where characters from another language are used in a stream of text that is in English. A prime example is the present specification, which is in English but contains the Spanish characters reproduced above. Because of this, other factors must also be considered.
Another factor to be considered is a closed caption language descriptor. If the stream of text is from a television program closed caption stream, such closed caption streams typically include a descriptor element that explicitly states the language of the stream. If such a descriptor is present in the stream of text, it can be used as an indicator of the language of the stream.
Another factor to be considered are stop words. If the stream of text contains, for example, English stop words such as ‘the’ and ‘of’, then it may be English, whereas if it contains Spanish stop words such as ‘el’ and ‘la’ then it might be Spanish. Similar stop words can be identified for additional languages.
Another factor to be considered are tags returned by the Tagger for a text segment. If the ratio of words in a sentence marked as a proper noun to the total number of words in the sentence is greater than a threshold, then the language used in the tagger may be incorrect, in that it is more common to have a lower ration of proper nouns to other words in the sentence (common nouns, verbs, etc.). In other words, if the Tagger has identified a large number of proper nouns in the sentence, it may be that the tagger is using the wrong language and has misidentified common nouns and verbs as proper nouns.
Internally, the language detection module may maintain a confidence table that keeps track of the likelihood of each language being the current language of the program. The values are influenced by the factors mentioned above. The final determination of the current language is made by choosing the language having the highest confidence value.
In an embodiment of the present invention, there is an interdependent relationship between the sentence detection module and the language detection module. Detecting a sentence can be helpful in determining the language of the words in the sentence, but detecting the language can be helpful in determining when the sentence ends. As such, there may be much interplay between the sentence detection module and the language detection module in order to fulfill both goals. A feedback loop can be used in such instances. The feedback loop may first use the language detection module based on information already available. For example, the closed caption language descriptor or, if the program has not changed, use the language of the last sentence, this information may be used to derive a rough estimate of the language. This estimated language can then be used to detect a sentence. The extracted sentence may then be fed back to the language detection module to get a better estimate of the language. If the confidence increases and is more than a threshold, then the system can confidently use the topics extracted from the sentence. Otherwise, the confidence in the quality of the topics from these sentences is low.
In another embodiment of the present invention, TV programs can be categorized into genres. For example, a TV program can be factual or non-factual. Factual programs are those which are about real events, informational, educational, news, documentaries, etc. Non-factual programs are those that contain humor, emotions, such as sitcoms and dramas. Factual programs usually contain a lot of content that the user may be interested in finding more information about, such as names, locations, organization names, objects, etc. Non-factual programs have much less content in them, usually just names. Using the extraction rules that are designed for factual programs on non-factual programs can result in a lot of junk topics.
To overcome this problem, a table can be used that provides different extraction rules depending on the type of the program. This table may be called a genre-rules map. The mapping doesn't just discriminate between factual and non-factual, but instead has different extraction rules for many different genres. Indeed, the mapping is only limited based on the number of different genres that can be detected or determined. In one embodiment, the mapping is hierarchical, in that general genres can include sub-genres, each of which may have their own extraction rules.
The topic extractor looks at the genre of the program and asks the genre-rules map to provide it the rules for the genre. The result of using this map is improved quality of topics extracted, especially for non-factual programs such as sitcoms.
In another embodiment of the present invention, validation is performed, even once topics have been extracted, to ensure that the topics are of high quality. This may take place in two steps. In the first step, the topic can be checked against one or more local word lists, such as names and locations, to determine if it is a valid topic. This not only helps validate the topic, but also provides semantics for the topic. For example, if the topic is found in a local locations list, then the topic is known to be a location and this information can be used to determine what additional information to provide to the user (e.g., open a weather application or widget and search the identified location). This step is known as local validation or semantic tagging.
In the second step, the topic is checked against online sources to determine its validity. It may be sent as a query to a search engine to check the number of results returned. If there are very few results, such as only 10-20, then the topic may be invalid. This may be caused, for example, if there are junk characters in the closed caption stream. Using this second step, many low quality topics can be removed. This also can aid the system in obtaining topics for which useful services can actually be provided. For example, even if the topic is a valid location like Paris, the weather widget may be only be able to show weather for U.S. addresses, and thus the topic should be ignored.
At 520, local validation is performed using a semantic database 522, such as a list of people and locations. If the topic is found to be semantically tagged at 524, then the topic is deemed valid at 526. If not, then remote validation is performed at 528, using an external data source 530 such as an Internet search engine. If the topic is deemed to be remotely validated at 532, then the topic is valid (526), otherwise the topic is invalid at 534.
As is known to those skilled in the art, the aforementioned example architectures described above, according to the present invention, can be implemented in many ways, such as program instructions for execution by a processor, as logic circuits, as an application specific integrated circuit, as firmware, etc. The present invention has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain preferred versions thereof; however, other versions are possible. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the preferred versions contained herein.
This application is a continuation-in-part of prior, co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/789,609, filed on Apr. 25, 2007, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
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