CONTROLLING LANGUAGE TENSE IN ELECTRONIC CONTENT

• US 20140337012A1
• Filed: 05/17/2013
• Published: 11/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bastide, Paul R., Broomhall, Matthew E., Loredo, Robert E.
• Application Number:
  US13/896,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20140337012A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique

Abstract

Controlling language tense in electronic content includes determining that an age of language in electronic content exceeds a language change time threshold and changing the language to reflect a current time in response to exceeding the language change time threshold.

Claims

1. A method for controlling language tense in electronic content, comprising:

determining that an age of language in electronic content in a display exceeds a language change time threshold; and

changing said language to reflect a current time in response to exceeding said language change time threshold.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein changing said language to reflect said current time in response to exceeding said language change time threshold includes changing numbers in said electronic content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein changing said language to reflect said current time in response to exceeding said language change time threshold includes changing verb tenses in said electronic content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said language is part of a text, a blog, an email, a posting, social media content, or combinations thereof.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that said age of said language in said electronic content in said display exceeds said language change time threshold includes measuring a lapsed time from a timestamp recorded with said language was originated in said electronic content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that said age of said language in said electronic content exceeds said language change time threshold includes obtaining user input about said age.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that said age of said language in said electronic content in said display exceeds said language change time threshold includes analyzing content of younger language in said electronic content.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining which text symbols of said language reflect time.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein determining which of said text symbols of said language reflect time includes identifying time of day terms, time of week terms, time of year terms, age terms, due date terms, verb terms, or combinations thereof.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein determining which of said text symbols of said language reflect time includes referencing a library of time based text symbols.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising assigning said text symbols independent language change time thresholds based on characteristics of said text symbols.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising applying a learning mechanism to determine an accuracy of said language that reflects said current time.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein said learning mechanism comprises a voting mechanism for users to provide input about said accuracy.

14. A method for controlling language tense in electronic content, comprising:

identifying terms that reflect time in language in electronic content in a display;

assigning time thresholds to said text symbols identified to reflect time; and

changing said language to reflect a current time in response to exceeding one of said time thresholds.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein identifying said text symbols that reflect time in said language in said electronic content in said display includes referencing a library of said text symbols that reflect time.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein assigning said time thresholds to said text symbols identified to reflect time includes referencing a library which includes a recommended time threshold for said text symbols.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein changing said language to reflect said current time in response to exceeding said one of said time thresholds includes referencing said library which contains a recommended change based on an expiration of said recommended time threshold.

18. The method of claim 14, further includes determining an age of said language.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein determining said age of said language includes measuring a recorded time stamp when said text symbols originated in said electronic content to said current time.

20. A method for controlling language tense in electronic content, comprising:

identifying text symbols that reflect a tense of in language of in electronic content;

assigning time thresholds to said text symbols identified to reflect said tense;

determining an age of said language in said electronic content; and

changing said tense of language to reflect a current time in response to exceeding at least one of said time thresholds.