NATURAL LANGUAGE PARSING METHOD TO PROVIDE CONCEPTUAL FLOW

• US 20080228467A1
• Filed: 04/11/2008
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Neuric, LLC
• Original Assignee: Neuric Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: WOMACK, Lukas K., LINDSLEY, Hannah, FETTIG, Matthew, LEDBETTER, Micah, VISEL, Thomas A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,725,493 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/211 Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30

Abstract

A method for parsing the flow of natural human language to convert a flow of machine recognizable language into a conceptual flow includes, first, recognizing the lexical structure and then, a basic semantic grouping is determined for the language flow in the lexical structure. The basic semantic grouping is then determined that denotes the main action, occurrence or state of being for the language flow. The responsibility of the main action, occurrence or state of being for the language flow is then determined within the lexical structure followed by semantically parsing the lexical structure. Thereafter, any ambiguities in the responsibilities are resolved in a recursive manner by applying a predetermined set of rules thereto.

Claims

1. :

A method for parsing the flow of natural human language to convert a flow of machine recognizable language into a conceptual flow, comprising the steps of;

recognizing a lexical structure;

determine a basic semantic grouping for the language flow in the lexical structure;

determine the basic semantic grouping that denotes the main action, occurrence or state of being for the language flow;

determining the responsibility of the main action, occurrence or state of being for the language flow within the lexical structure;

semantically parsing the lexical structure; and

resolving any ambiguities in the responsibilities in a recursive manner by applying a predetermined set of rules thereto.

2. :

The method of claim 1, wherein the basic semantic groupings are words.

3. :

The method of claim 1, wherein the lexical structure comprises a flow of sentences.

4. :

The method of claim 3, wherein the main action, occurrence or state of being for the language flow comprises the main verb.