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Smart string replacement

  • US 20060136352A1
  • Filed: 12/17/2004
  • Published: 06/22/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for replacing in a document a source string with a target string, comprising:

  • morpho-syntactically disambiguating textual content of the document;

    identifying a set of string dependencies by detecting grammatical or anaphoric dependencies, or both, between strings in the textual content of the document;

    disambiguating one or more of gender, number, or part of speech with user specifications when the source string or the target string have more than one possible meaning;

    identifying occurrences of the source string in the document that satisfy the user specifications;

    identifying string relations from the set of string dependencies that define direct or indirect links, or both, to the source string;

    replacing each occurrences of the source string in the document that satisfy the user specifications with the target string;

    correcting grammatical or anaphoric inconsistencies, or both, in the string relations in the document that are introduced when the source string is replaced with the target string; and

    outputting the document.

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