Microsoft Corporation
DESCRIPTIVE INSIGHT GENERATION AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM

Abstract:

A system is described that generates descriptive insights in a manner that does not require observations to be made by a visually-impaired user and that can present insights in a form perceptible by such a user. A structured dataset or a digital visual graph may include business intelligence or other types of data. In the case of a graph, the graph is converted to the structured dataset. Parameter names in the dataset are encoded using parameter metadata. Relationships among the data of the dataset are identified based on the encoded parameter names and content of the parameters. The relationships are evaluated based on domain knowledge to generate insights. The insights are applied to automatically-selected text templates to generate descriptive insights. The descriptive insights may be presented to a user in a user interface (e.g., in a BI dashboard) or converted to a form perceptible by a visually-impaired user (e.g., speech).