Method for apparatus for construction and use of an operational lexicon in process models and managing their synchronized representations
First Claim
1. A method, comprising the step of creating an operational lexicon.
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Abstract
The primary component of the present invention is an automated method for transforming any suitably well-formed textual description of a process into a series of diagrammatic representations of that process. The secondary component of this invention is an automated method for transforming any of these diagrammatic representations into a corresponding textual description. These complementary methods are specific implementations of a more fundamental process modeling method for constructing a fundamental object structure from which a coordinated set of diverse representations may be uniformly generated, and hence, automatically synchronized. This fundamental process modeling method derives directly from the underlying mechanisms of syntactic and semantic representation provided by metaScript, a software technology presented in a previous patent application (Ser. No. 09/883,693: “Computer System With Natural Language To Machine Language Translator”).
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- 1. A method, comprising the step of creating an operational lexicon.
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19. A method for lexical type resolution, comprising the steps of:
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transforming a virtual type occurring in a lexical type sequence into an actual type, where a virtual lexical type is an ambiguous designation of grammatical role allowing for a number of possible outcomes in sentential context, and an actual lexical type is a fixed designation of grammatical role;
performing lexical type sequence resolution by iterated lexical type resolution, incorporating submethods, comprising;
performing syntactic refinement, by, assigning a relatively resolved lexical type to an unresolved lexical type in a type sequence, and using a type correlation specifically determined by an optimization over the created type sequence topology;
performing syntactic type reduction, by, selecting an adjacent pair of fully resolved types according to a type reduction rank matrix, and transforming the adjacent pair of fully resolved types in a type sequence into a remaining dominant type and a suppressed subordinate type;
preparing a syntactic complex representation, which represents an actual lexical type sequence, where the syntactic complex is a syntactic dependency structure represented as a parse tree that encodes syntactic information required to perform further semantic processing; and
preparing a semantic object representation comprising the prepared syntactic complex augmented by an operational type association method. wherein;
the transformation is based on the type reduction rank matrix comprising a reduction priority structure operating on a space of pairs of actual lexical types; and
lexical type sequence resolution by iterated lexical type resolution in an interwoven application which transforms any sequence of lexical types into a correlated sequence of actual types.
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