Computerized method and apparatus for automatically generating a natural language description of a person's activities
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1. A computerized method for automatically composing a natural language summary of a person'"'"'s activities, comprising:
- obtaining data related to activities in which the person has engaged;
distinguishing more meaningful data from less meaningful data contained in the obtained data; and
composing a natural language summary of the person'"'"'s activities from said more meaningful data.
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Abstract
A computerized method to gather, store and process data related to activities in which the person had been engaged, and to generate a natural language description summarizing the person'"'"'s activities. The description can then be transmitted to a remote computer for use by various computer applications, such as a blog.
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25 Claims
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1. A computerized method for automatically composing a natural language summary of a person'"'"'s activities, comprising:
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obtaining data related to activities in which the person has engaged;
distinguishing more meaningful data from less meaningful data contained in the obtained data; and
composing a natural language summary of the person'"'"'s activities from said more meaningful data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method, based on using data obtained about activities engaged in by a person, for distinguishing more meaningful data from less meaningful data contained in the obtained data, comprising the steps of:
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for each activity, determining a first weight based on the history of the person;
for each activity, determining a second weight based on the history of a population; and
for each activity, combining the first and second weights to derive an importance value. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method, based on using data obtained about at least one activity engaged in by a person, for automatically composing a natural language summary of such at least one activity, comprising the steps of:
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creating a paragraph structure related to the at least one activity;
creating a sentence structure to respectively summarize at least a component of the at least one activity, wherein the natural language used in the sentences is based on the obtained data;
selecting verbs for insertion into said sentence structure; and
selecting conjunctions for joining the paragraphs and/or sentences to form the summary. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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