SENTENCE PARSING CORRECTION SYSTEM

• US 20150286618A1
• Filed: 10/24/2013
• Published: 10/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Walker Reading Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Walker Reading Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Walker, Randall C.
• Granted Patent: US 9,390,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking

Abstract

A system provides on a computer display screen, a graphical image of an initial parsing as generated by a computerized algorithm. Individual clauses are encased in expandable containers that a user can shift and resize on the screen using a mouse or other cursor control device to thereby improve the initial parsing.

Claims

1. A system for improved sentence parsing having a computer, a display screen receiving display signals from the computer forming a plurality of display objects on the screen and a cursor image on the screen, and a cursor control element for user control providing i) a cursor control signal to the computer specifying the position of the cursor, and ii) a cursor action signal having attach and detach states to attach and release the cursor to an object underlying the cursor, said underlying object movable with the cursor during the attach state of the cursor action signal, and dropping the object in the current position thereof responsive to the detach state of the cursor action signal, said computer receiving an input sentence signal encoding the characters comprising a sentence and generating therefrom a meta-tag listing of the sentence, and providing according to a preselected parsing algorithm, an initial meta-tag listing signal encoding a parsed version of the noun, verb, and prepositional phrases of the sentence, wherein the computer further comprises:

a) a display element receiving the initial meta-tag listing signal, and producing an initial parsed image display signal for the display screen, said initial parsed image display signal creating on the display screen the sentence text arranged in original order, and having on successive lines, the noun, verb, and prepositional phrases of the sentence with indentations specifying the parsing relationships among them;

b) a format element receiving the parsed sentence signal and creating an excon image for each phrase in the sentence in an expandable container (excon) format, each said image including the phrase and a decoration unique to that phrase, and encoding the excon format in an excon format signal defining the shape of each excon image and an initial topologic relationship of each excon image to the other excon images specifying the initial parsing; and

c) a correction element receiving the excon format signal and the cursor control and action signals, and responsive thereto attaching the cursor to an excon image, moving the cursor and the excon image, and then detaching the cursor from the excon image, and providing a display signal creating an image following said attaching, moving, and detaching activities, and responsive to the change from the attach to the detach state of the cursor action signal, producing a final parsed image display signal creating on the display screen a final topologic relationship of each excon image to the other excon images specifying the altered parsing, wherein the sentence text has on successive lines, the noun, verb, and prepositional phrases of the sentence with indentations specifying the final parsing.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the decoration comprises a pattern through which the phrase is visible.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the pattern comprises lines visible on the display screen, each line within an excon image of a similar type and spaced from the other lines within that excon image.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the lines within at least one excon image are solid and the lines within another excon image are dashed.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the format element includes a line merge element, wherein an area on the display screen defined by two overlapping excon images, displays the lines unique to the two overlapping excon images.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the decoration comprises a color through which the phrase is readable.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the format element includes a color merge element, wherein an area on the display screen defined by two overlapping excon images, displays a color different from the colors unique to the two overlapping excon images.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the color in the area on the display screen defined by two overlapping excon images, has a spectral relationship to each of the colors in the two overlapping excon images.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the correction element issues a signal specifying the indentation of the text within an excon image attached to the cursor responsive to the detach state of the signal.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the correction element issues a display signal resizing the dimensions of at least one excon image responsive to the cursor control and action signals.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer further comprises a conversion element receiving the final parsed image display signal and converting said signal into sets of mark-up tags in a linear text listing for the original sentence, and encoding the sets of mark-up tags into a final meta-tag listing signal.