System, method, and computer program product for anticipatory hypothesis-driven text retrieval and argumentation tools for strategic decision support

摘要

Provided are systems, methods, and computer programs for facilitating strategic decision support that include providing a domain model, receiving a hypothesis or query, using the domain model and hypothesis or query with a related prediction, and searching for evidentiary results related to a prediction obtained from the hypothesis or from the query and domain model. A method may search and extract evidentiary results based on the hypothesis, query, or prediction. Evidentiary results may be associated with domain concepts and ranked according to relevancy to the associated domain concepts. And a user may select certain evidentiary results as being relevant, and these relevant evidentiary results may be used to create a report.