AN APPARATUS FOR, AND A METHOD OF, IDENTIFYING COLLOCATES IN ORDER TO DISTINGUISH READILY BETWEEN DIFFERENT COLLOCATIONS

• US 20020007266A1
• Filed: 09/03/1998
• Published: 01/17/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: POZNANSKI, VICTOR, SATA, ICHIKO, IMAI, AKIRA, BERRY, SIMON, WHITELOCK, PETER JOHN, IJDENS, JAN JAAP, CORLEY, STEFFAN
• Application Number:
  US09/146,180
• Publication Number:
  US 20020007266A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation

Abstract

An apparatus for identifying collocates in a phrase to be processed comprises input means for inputting the phrase to be processed, processing means for determining, for each word in the phrase, whether a word is a collocate and output means for outputting the phrase. The processing means is adapted to identify collocates belonging to a first collocation in a first manner in the output phrase, and to identify collocates belonging to a second collocation in a second manner in the output phrase. The second manner is different from the first manner.

Claims

1. An apparatus for identifying collocates in a phrase to be processed comprising:

input means for inputting the phrase to be processed;

processing means for determining, for each word in the phrase, whether a word is a collocate; and

output means for outputting the phrase,

wherein the processing means is adapted to identify collocates belonging to a first collocation in a first manner in the output phrase, and to identify collocates belonging to a second collocation in a second manner in the output phrase, the second manner being different from the first manner.

3. An apparatus for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 1 and further adapted to identify a collocate belonging to the nth collocation (n=1, 2, 3, . . . ) by outputting a marker in proximity to the collocate in the output phrase.

6. An apparatus for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 3, wherein the marker is “

n”

.

9. An apparatus for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 1, wherein the output means comprises means for displaying the output phrase.

2. An apparatus for identifying collocates in a phrase to be processed comprising:

input means for inputting the phrase to be processed;

processing means for determining, for each word in the phrase, whether a word is a collocate;

output means for outputting the phrase; and

selecting means for selecting a word of the phrase to be processed,

wherein the apparatus is adapted, if the selected word is a collocate, to identify in the output phrase the selected word and the other words of the collocation of which the selected word is a collocate.

4. An apparatus for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 2 and further adapted to identify a collocate belonging to the n^th collocation (n=1, 2, 3, . . . ) by outputting a marker in proximity to the collocate in the output phrase.

7. An apparatus for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 4, wherein the marker is “

n”

.

10. An apparatus for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 2, wherein the output means comprises means for displaying the output phrase.

5. An apparatus for identifying collocates in a phrase to be processed comprising:

input means for inputting the phrase to be processed;

processing means for determining, for each word in the phrase, whether a word is a collocate; and

output means for outputting the phrase,

wherein the apparatus is adapted to identify a collocate belonging to the nth collocation (n=1, 2, 3, . . . ) by outputting a marker in proximity to the collocate in the output phrase.

8. An apparatus for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 5, wherein the marker is “

n”

.

11. An apparatus for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 5, wherein the output means comprises means for displaying the output phrase.

12. A method of identifying collocates in a phrase to be processed comprising the steps of:

a) determining, for each word in the phrase to be processed, whether a word is a collocate; and

b) displaying the phrase,

wherein collocates belonging to a first collocation are identified in a first manner in the displayed phrase, and collocates belonging to a second collocation are identified in a second manner in the displayed phrase, the second manner being different from the first manner.

14. A method of identifying collocates as claimed in claim 12, wherein a collocate belonging to the nth collocation (n=1, 2, 3, . . . ) is identified in the displayed phrase by displaying a marker in proximity to the displayed collocate.

17. An method for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 14, wherein the marker is “

n”

.

13. A method of identifying collocates in a phrase to be processed comprising the steps of:

a) determining, for each word in the phrase to be processed, whether a word is a collocate;

b) displaying the phrase;

c) selecting a word of the phrase to be processed; and

d) if the selected word is a collocate, identifying in the displayed phrase the selected word and the other words of the collocation of which the selected word is a collocate.

15. A method of identifying collocates as claimed in claim 13, wherein a collocate belonging to the nth collocation (n=1, 2, 3, . . . ) is identified in the displayed phrase by displaying a marker in proximity to the displayed collocate.

18. An method for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 15, wherein the marker is “

n”

.

16. A method of identifying collocates in a phrase to be processed comprising the steps of:

a) determining for each word in the phrase to be processed, whether a word is a collocate; and

b) displaying the phrase,

wherein a collocate belonging to the nth collocation (n=1, 2, 3, . . . ) is identified in the displayed phrase by displaying a marker in proximity to the displayed collocate.

19. An method for identifying collocates as claimed in claim 16, wherein the marker is “

n”

.