Assertion quality assessment and management system

Abstract

An assertion assessment system is presented. An assertion object that represents a relationship between an assertion and an information source can be bound to a quality measure as an indication of the quality of the assertion object. The assertion assessment system enables different recipients of assertion objects that are linked to information sources to assess assertion quality of the assertion objects. The assertion assessment system manages and tracks these assessments of the assertion objects and provides useful indications to the recipients. Thus, workers who come upon an assertion can make a judgment on the quality of the assertion based on assessment made by other workers, without going through the information source that supports the assertion.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An assertion assessment system comprising
 an assertion database configured to store assertion objects, each assertion object representing a relationship between a assertion and an information source; and   an assessment tracking engine coupled with the assertion database and configured to:
 select an assertion object from the assertion database; 
 receive interaction data representing an assessment of the assertion object; 
 derive an assertion quality measure of the relationship as a function of the interaction data; 
 bind the assertion quality measure to the assertion object; and 
 configure an output device to present the assertion quality measure. 
   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the interaction data comprises a user assessment input. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the interaction data comprises an aggregated assessment. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 2 , wherein the interaction data comprises a calculated assessment from multiple assessment scores. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the interaction data comprises survey data. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the interaction data comprises crowd sourced data. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the interaction data comprises an assessment score. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the assertion object comprises the information source. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the assertion object comprises a pointer to the information source. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein the information source comprises one of the followings: a literal, an annotation, and another assertion object. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the assertion object represents an opinion. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the assertion object represents a fact. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the assertion object represents a point. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the assertion object represents an observation. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the assertion object represents a conclusion. 
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the assertion object represents a perception. 
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the assertion object comprises an infoclip. 
     
     
         18 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the quality measure represents an appropriateness. 
     
     
         19 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the quality measures represents a validity. 
     
     
         20 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein tracking engine is further configured to store the interaction data. 
     
     
         21 . The system of  claim 20 , wherein the tracking engine is further configured to derive interaction metrics associated with the stored interaction data. 
     
     
         22 . The system of  claim 21 , wherein the interaction metrics include at least one of the following:
 number of assessments, assessment trends, and validation statistics.   
     
     
         23 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein tracking engine is further configured to derive the quality measure as a function of a demographic in addition to the interaction data. 
     
     
         24 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the tracking engine is further configured to adjust a weight factor of the interaction data when deriving the quality measure. 
     
     
         25 . The system of  claim 24 , wherein the weighting factor depends on a user profile. 
     
     
         26 . The system of  claim 24 , wherein the weighting factor depends on a cultural profile. 
     
     
         27 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the tracking engine is further configured to restrict access to the information source based on a rights policy. 
     
     
         28 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the tracking engine is further configured to restrict the assessment based on an access policy. 
     
     
         29 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising an assessment interface configured to present the relationship of the selected assertion object.