Rule Based Apparatus for Modifying Word Annotations

• US 20090248400A1
• Filed: 04/01/2009
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Luke, James Steven
• Granted Patent: US 8,433,560 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/36 Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/025 Extracting rules from data

Abstract

A rule based apparatus and method for modifying word annotations in an annotated text base is described. The apparatus includes an index creator component for creating an index of word annotations. An annotations modifying component for modifying word annotations, and a retriggering component, responsive to said annotations modifying component, for retriggering a rules engine to modify all occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base and updating the index of word annotations with the modified occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base.

Claims

1. A rule based apparatus for modifying word annotations in an annotated text base, the apparatus comprising:

an index creator component for creating an index of word annotations;

an annotations modifying component for modifying word annotations; and

a retriggering component, responsive to said annotations modifying component, for retriggering a rules engine to modify all occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base and updating the index of word annotations with the modified occurrences.

2. A rule based apparatus as claimed in claim 1 further comprises a tokenising component for identifying a word, a number or a punctuation marks associated with a document to be stored in the annotated text base.

3. A rule based apparatus as claimed in claim 2 wherein the tokenising component on identifying a word, a number or a punctuation mark creates a reference to the identified word, number or punctuation mark in the created index of word annotations.

4. A rule based apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the index creator component further comprises checking in the index to determine if there is already stored a reference to a word in the annotated text base.

5. A rule based apparatus as claimed in claim 4 wherein responsive to a positive determination by the index creator component, the annotation modifying component modifies the annotation associated with the word in the annotated text base to the annotation associated with the determined reference.

6. A rule based method for modifying word annotations in an annotated text base, the method comprising:

creating an index of word annotations;

modifying word annotations; and

retriggering a rules engine to modify all occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base and updating the index of word annotations with the modified occurrences in response to the modifying step.

7. A rule based method as claimed in claim 6 further comprises a identifying a word, a number or a punctuation mark associated with a document to be stored in the annotated text base.

8. A rule based method as claimed in claim 7 wherein on identifying a word, a number or a punctuation mark creating a reference to the identified word, number or punctuation mark in the created index of word annotations.

9. A rule based method as claimed in claim 6 further comprising checking in the index to determine if there is already stored a reference to a word in the annotated text based.

10. A rule based method as claimed in claim 9 wherein responsive to a positive determination by the indexing step, the annotation modifying component modifies the annotation associated with the word in the annotated text base to the annotation associated with the determined reference.

11. A computer program product for modifying word annotations in an text base, the computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising;

computer usable program code configured to;

create an index of word annotations;

modify word annotations; and

retrigger a rules engine to modify all occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base and updating the index of word annotations with the modified occurrences in response to the modifying step.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 further comprising identifying one of a word, a number or a punctuation mark associated with a document to be stored in the annotated text base.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein identifying one of the word, the number or a punctuation mark creates a reference to the identified word, number or punctuation mark in the created index of word annotations.

14. The computer program product of claim 11 further comprising checking in the index to determine if there is already stored a reference to a word in the annotated text based.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein responsive to a positive determination by the indexing step, the annotation modifying component modifies the annotation associated with the word in the annotated text base to the annotation associated with the determined reference.