IDENTIFICATION OF SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN REPORTED SPEECH
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for developing semantic relationships between elements distilled from content of a document to generate a semantic representation of the content, the method comprising:
- identifying a text portion of the document;
determining semantic information for a plurality of elements identified in the text portion, the semantic information including one or more of meanings of the identified elements or grammatical functions of the identified elements;
identifying at least one of the identified elements as a reporting act corresponding to a speech report or an attitude report;
based on the determined semantic information for the identified elements, associating the identified elements so that each association of identified elements represents a certain semantic relationship; and
generating a semantic representation that includes the associations of the identified elements.
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Abstract
Methods and computer-readable media for associating words or groups of words distilled from content, such as reported speech or an attitude report, of a document to form semantic relationships collectively used to generate a semantic representation of the content are provided. Semantic representations may include elements identified or parsed from a text portion of the content, the elements of which may be associated with other elements that share a semantic relationship, such as an agent, location, or topic relationship. Relationships may also be developed by associating one element that is in relation to, or is about, another element, thereby allowing for rapid and effective comparison of associations found in a semantic representation with associations derived from queries. The semantic relationships may be determined based on semantic information, such as potential meanings and grammatical functions of each element within the text portion of the content.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for developing semantic relationships between elements distilled from content of a document to generate a semantic representation of the content, the method comprising:
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identifying a text portion of the document; determining semantic information for a plurality of elements identified in the text portion, the semantic information including one or more of meanings of the identified elements or grammatical functions of the identified elements; identifying at least one of the identified elements as a reporting act corresponding to a speech report or an attitude report; based on the determined semantic information for the identified elements, associating the identified elements so that each association of identified elements represents a certain semantic relationship; and generating a semantic representation that includes the associations of the identified elements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer-implemented method for, in response to receiving a query, creating associations between various terms distilled from the query to generate a proposition, the proposition being used to interrogate semantic representations of content from documents stored in a semantic index to provide relevant search results, the method comprising:
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determining semantic information for one or more search terms; identifying a first reporting act within the query; based on the determined semantic information for the one or more search terms, determining a semantic relationship between the first reporting act and at least one of the one or more search terms, thereby creating an association by way of a relational element that describes the semantic relationship; and generating the proposition, the proposition including the association between the first reporting act and the at least one of the one or more search terms. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of developing semantic relationships between elements distilled from content of a document to generate a semantic representation of the content, further allowing for indexing of the content, the method comprising:
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identifying at least a portion of the document to be indexed, the at least a portion of the document being a text portion; parsing the text portion of the document to identify elements that are to be semantically represented; accessing a data store to determine potential meanings and grammatical functions of the identified elements; determining one or more levels of association within the text portion; identifying a reporting act within the text portion for each of the one or more determined levels of association; associating a first reporting act with a first set of identified elements, wherein the first reporting act is associated with a first level of association; associating a second reporting act with a second set of identified elements, wherein the second reporting act is associated with a second level of association; and generating a semantic representation that includes associations, by way of a relational element that describes the associations, between the first set of identified elements to the first reporting act and the second set of identified elements to the second reporting act.
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