METHOD TO ASSIGN WORD CLASS INFORMATION

• US 20150127374A1
• Filed: 01/14/2015
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Helletzgruber, Matthias, Rajic, Kresimir
• Granted Patent: US 9,996,675 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/237 Lexical tools
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/268 Morphological analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients

Abstract

An assignment device (1) assigns word class information (WKI) to one or more words of text information (ETI). Based on word-class sequence information (WK-AI) formed from this assigned word class information (WKI), actions (A) are executed in order to notify the user of conflicts or to provide the user with background information (HI) relating to words in the text information (TT).

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A device, comprising:

at least one computer programmed to perform;

assigning word-class information to words in a medical report, the assigning comprising;

assigning first word-class information to a first word or word sequence in the medical report, wherein the first word or word sequence names a particular medicament; and

assigning second word-class information to a second word or word sequence in the medical report;

performing at least one action related to the particular medicament and associated with a combination of the first word-class information and the second word-class information, wherein performing the at least one action comprises providing a prescription for the particular medicament.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein assigning the word-class information comprises:

searching for words of the medical report in a word dictionary memory having word-class information assigned to word information.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein assigning the word-class information comprises finding the particular word or word sequence in the word dictionary memory, and reading the assigned word-class information for the particular word or word sequence from the word dictionary memory.

19. The device of claim 16, wherein the medical report comprises text information, and wherein the method comprises recognizing the text information from speech by implementing a voice recognition method.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the assigning of word-class information to the words is performed in the course of implementation of the voice recognition method.

21. The device of claim 16, further comprising searching for a different medicament that is comparable to the particular medicament named by the particular word or word sequence.

22. The device of claim 16, wherein providing the prescription comprises printing the prescription.

23. A method, comprising:

using at least one computer to perform;

assigning word-class information to words in a medical report, the assigning comprising;

assigning first word-class information to a first word or word sequence in the medical report, wherein the first word or word sequence names a particular medicament; and

assigning second word-class information to a second word or word sequence in the medical report;

performing at least one action related to the particular medicament and associated with a combination of the first word-class information and the second word-class information, wherein performing the at least one action comprises providing a prescription for the particular medicament.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein assigning the word-class information comprises:

searching for words of the medical report in a word dictionary memory having word-class information assigned to word information.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein assigning the word-class information comprises finding the particular word or word sequence in the word dictionary memory, and reading the assigned word-class information for the particular word or word sequence from the word dictionary memory.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein the medical report comprises text information, and wherein the method comprises recognizing the text information from speech by implementing a voice recognition method.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the assigning of word-class information to the words is performed in the course of implementation of the voice recognition method.

28. The method of claim 23, further comprising searching for a different medicament that is comparable to the particular medicament named by the particular word or word sequence.

29. The method of claim 23, wherein providing the prescription comprises printing the prescription.

30. At least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing sections of software code executable by at least one computer that, when executed by the at least one computer, cause the at least one computer to perform a method comprising:

assigning word-class information to words in a medical report, the assigning comprising;

assigning first word-class information to a first word or word sequence in the medical report, wherein the first word or word sequence names a particular medicament; and

assigning second word-class information to a second word or word sequence in the medical report;

performing at least one action related to the particular medicament and associated with a combination of the first word-class information and the second word-class information, wherein performing the at least one action comprises providing a prescription for the particular medicament.

31. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 30, wherein assigning the word-class information comprises:

searching for words of the medical report in a word dictionary memory having word-class information assigned to word information.

32. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 31, wherein assigning the word-class information comprises finding the particular word or word sequence in the word dictionary memory, and reading the assigned word-class information for the particular word or word sequence from the word dictionary memory.

33. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 30, wherein the medical report comprises text information, and wherein the method comprises recognizing the text information from speech by implementing a voice recognition method.

34. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 30, further comprising searching for a different medicament that is comparable to the particular medicament named by the particular word or word sequence.

35. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 30, wherein providing the prescription comprises printing the prescription.