Method for describing existing data by a natural language and program for that

• US 20050228635A1
• Filed: 02/27/2003
• Published: 10/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michio Ogura, Shuichi Araki
• Original Assignee: Michio Ogura, Shuichi Araki
• Inventors: Ogura, Michio, Araki, Shuichi
• Application Number:
  US10/517,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20050228635A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/216 using statistical methods

Abstract

The object of the present invention is to make it easier to use an existing data created by certain software programs on a different software program or use the data for different purposes. The object is achieved by the process including the following steps: analyzing an existing data created by a specific software object; converting the data into an instruction sequence that the software object has executed to create the aforementioned data; converting the instruction sequence into a function describing expression of natural language understandable to the user; obtaining semantic information from the function describing expression; and creating a request describing expression by adding a meaning to the function describing expression. The request describing expression is described in natural language, which contains all the information required to reproduce the original data.

Claims

1. A method of describing an existing data using natural language, which is characterized in that a computer carries out a process including steps of:

designating an existing data created by a specific software object;

analyzing the aforementioned data to convert it into an instruction sequence that the software object has executed to create the aforementioned data;

converting the instruction sequence into a function describing expression of natural language that can be understood by a user; and

obtaining semantic information from the function describing expression and creating a request describing expression by adding a meaning to the function describing expression.

2. A program for making a computer carry out the method according to claim 1.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the designated data is converted into an instruction sequence, using a dictionary specifying the correspondence between instruction sequences that the software object can execute and data formats.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the instruction sequence is converted into a function describing expression, using a dictionary specifying the correspondence between function describing expressions of natural language understandable to the user and instruction sequences.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a request describing expression is created from the function describing expression, using a dictionary specifying the correspondence between semantic expressions of user'"'"'s requests and functional descriptions.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the dictionary is a conversion table listing words and phrases used in the function describing expression or request describing expression, where each word or phrase is paired with one or more words or phrases that are replaceable with each other.