Organically ranked knowledge categorization in a knowledge management system

1. In a knowledge management system, a method for organically ranked knowledge and categorization, the method comprising:

bookmarking answer content by adding the answer content to favorites for a first end user of the knowledge management system executing in memory of a computer;

suggesting a set of categories previously associated with the answer content by other end users of the knowledge management system in response to the first end user bookmarking answer content;

categorizing the bookmarked answer content with a category selected from the set of categories; and,

adjusting a self-learning score assigned to each category in the set of categories to account for the category selected by the first end user, the self-learning score based upon a degree of expertise determined by at least one of a frequency of contributing answer content to the knowledge management system and a frequency of answer content linked to by other end users of the knowledge management system.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein suggesting the set of categories previously associated with the answer content by other end users of the knowledge management system in response to the first end user bookmarking answer content comprises weighting different ones of self-learning scores to account for category selections by expert end users of the knowledge management system.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

comparing uncategorized answer content to already categorized content to identify similar answer content; and,

associating uncategorized answer content with categories already associated with similar categorized answer content.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising bookmarking additional answer content for the first end user already categorized with the selected category by the other end users of the knowledge management system.

5. A knowledge management data processing system comprising:

a computer with at least one processor and memory;

a data store of categorizations coupled to the computer and comprising records associating answer content in the knowledge management data processing system with end user applied categories;

an expert modeler coupled to the data store, executing in the memory of the computer and configured to apply a ranked order to sub-sets of categories in the data store of categorizations according to self-learning scores applied to the categories; and,

organic ranked knowledge categorization logic comprising program code enabled when executed by at least one processor of the computer to detect the bookmarking of answer content, bookmarking comprises adding answer content to favorites of an end user, to suggest a set of categories previously associated with end user bookmarked answer content by other end users of the knowledge management system in response to the end user bookmarking answer content, to categorize the bookmarked answer content with a category selected from the set of categories, and to adjust a self-learning score applied to each category in the set of categories to account for the category selected by the end user, the self-learning score based upon a degree of expertise determined by at least one of a frequency of contributing answer content to the knowledge management system and a frequency of answer content linked to by other end users of the knowledge management system.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the self-learning scores are weighted to account for category selections by expert ones of the other end users.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the answer content are articles in the knowledge management system.

8. A knowledge management computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable storage medium embodying computer usable program code for organically ranked knowledge and categorization, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for bookmarking answer content by adding the answer content to favorites for a first end user of a knowledge management system;

computer usable program code for suggesting a set of categories previously associated with the answer content by other end users of the knowledge management system in response to the first end user bookmarking answer content;

computer usable program code for categorizing the bookmarked answer content with a category selected from the set of categories; and,

computer usable program code for adjusting a self-learning score assigned to each category in the set of categories to account for the category selected by the first end user, the self-learning score based upon a degree of expertise determined by at least one of a frequency of contributing answer content to the knowledge management system and a frequency of answer content linked to by other end users of the knowledge management system.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the computer usable program code for suggesting the set of categories previously associated with the answer content by other end users of the knowledge management system in response to the first end user bookmarking answer content comprises computer usable program code for weighting different ones of self-learning scores to account for category selections by expert end users of the knowledge management system.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 , further comprising:

computer usable program code for comparing uncategorized answer content to already categorized content to identify similar answer content; and,

computer usable program code for associating uncategorized answer content with categories already associated with similar categorized answer content.

11. The computer program product of claim 8 , further comprising computer usable program code for bookmarking additional answer content for the first end user already categorized with the selected category by the other end users of the knowledge management system.