Inventors:
- Minneapolis MN, US
Ravindra Kasturi - Redmond WA, US
Jaideep Srivastava - Plymouth MN, US
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
Computerized systems for providing interest-to-item matching when item metadata is lacking or unavailable such that desired items of interest (e.g., research datasets) may be located for a user. For instance, the computing system may generate a context of a user's interest based on information indicating the user's interest (e.g., authors of research document, title of research document), and use the context to identify potentially relevant items and determine the relevance of the items to the user's interest. Additionally, a searchable database of items is generated by extracting identifiers of low content items from publicly available sources, such as the Internet, and generating contexts for the identified items. The computing system then indexes the identified items in the database using the generated contexts thereby enabling users to search the database for items of interest. Moreover, generating a context for items provides better accessibility for items that have little or no indexable content (e.g., metadata).