System for creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions

A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to aut...

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Hauptverfasser: THOMPSON CRAIG P, OSBORN CORY, PETRAS GREGORY J, ZYWICKI JEFFREY T, MASON ANDREW F, PARHAM FLORI N, THOMAS RACHAEL A, HILL RICHARD W, RIFFEL CONNIE
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Zusammenfassung:A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality of the database information without any substantial management by the website owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form of both comments and ratings about which natural-language terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are further preferred to be evaluative and approving.