Method and apparatus for the electronic storage and retrieval of expressions and linguistic information
First Claim
1. An apparatus for the electronic storage of linguistic expressions, said apparatus comprisingA. main dictionary means for storing at least one addressable entry representative of a linguistic expression, said expression being at least one of a base form of a regular paradigm, a base form of a partially irregular paradigm, an exceptional inflected form of a partially irregular paradigm, and an element of a fully irregular paradigm, andB. means for storing linguistic information corresponding to at least one said stored entry and comprising at least one of(i) a first coding means for storing a first linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored regular paradigm base form-reprepresentative entry,(ii) a second coding means for storing an addressable second linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored partially irregular paradigm base form-representative entry, and
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system for storing, retrieving, and processing linguistic information. In one aspect, the invention provides a system for storing linguistic expressions, which system includes a main dictionary storage section and three coding sections, one for each of regular paradigm information, partially irregular paradigm information, and fully irregular paradigm information. In another aspect, the invention provides a system for evaluating linguistic expressions, e.g., words, and determining their grammatical and inflectional information. The invention has applicability in the field of word processing.
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1. An apparatus for the electronic storage of linguistic expressions, said apparatus comprising
A. main dictionary means for storing at least one addressable entry representative of a linguistic expression, said expression being at least one of a base form of a regular paradigm, a base form of a partially irregular paradigm, an exceptional inflected form of a partially irregular paradigm, and an element of a fully irregular paradigm, and B. means for storing linguistic information corresponding to at least one said stored entry and comprising at least one of (i) a first coding means for storing a first linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored regular paradigm base form-reprepresentative entry, (ii) a second coding means for storing an addressable second linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored partially irregular paradigm base form-representative entry, and
- 2. (iii) a third coding means for storing an addressable third linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored fully irregular paradigm element-representative entry.
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26. An apparatus for processing signals representative of linguistic expressions, said apparatus comprising
A. means for entering a signal representative of an input expression, B. means for determining a grammatical classification and an inflectional classification of said input expression, C. means for outputting a signal representative of said classification determination, and D. means for generating a signal representative of an expression linguistically related to said input expression, said related expression signal-generating means including inflect means for generating a signal representative of an expression of like grammatical and inflectional classification to said input expression.
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29. An apparatus for processing signals representative of linguistic expressions, said aparatus comprising
A. means for entering a signal representative of an input expression, B. means for determining a grammatical classification and an inflectional classification of said input expression, C. means for outputting a signal representative of said classification determination, D. said grammatical-inflection classification determining means comprising main dictionary means for storing at least one addressable entry representative of a linguistic expression, said expression being at least one of a base form of a regular paradigm, a base form of a partially irregular paradigm, an exceptional inflected form of a partially irregular paradigm, and an element of a fully irregular paradigm, and means for storing linguistic information corresponding to at least one said stored entry and comprising at least one of (i) a first coding means for storing a first linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored regular paradigm base form-representative entry, (ii) a second coding means for storing an addressable second linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored partially irregular paradigm base form-representative entry, and (iii) a third coding means for storing an addressable third linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored fully irregular paradigm element-representative entry.
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40. A method for the electronic storage of linguistic expressions, said method comprising the steps of
A. storing a main dictionary comprising at least one addressable entry representative of a linguistic expression, said expression being at least one of a base form of a regular paradigm, a base form of a partially irregular paradigm, an exceptional inflected form of a partially irregular paradigm, and an element of a fully irregular paradigm, and B. storing linguistic information corresponding to at least one said stored entry and comprising at least one of the steps of (i) storing a first linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored regular paradigm base form-reprepresentative entry, (ii) storing an addressable second linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored partially irregular paradigm base form-representative entry, and (iii) storing an addressable third linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored fully irregular paradigm element-representative entry.
- 63. A method according to clam 61 in which said interrelationship-representative signal storing step comprises storing a signal representative of synonymy.
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64. A method for processing signals representative of linguistic expressions, comprising the steps of
A. receiving a signal representative of an input expression, B. determining a grammatical and an inflectional classification of said input expression, and C. outputting a signal indication of said classification-representative, D. generating a signal representative of an expression linguistically related to said input expression, said related expression signal-generating step including an inflecting step for generating a signal representative of an expression of like grammatical and inflectional classification to said input expression.
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67. A method for processing signals representative of linguistic expressions, comprising the steps of
A. receiving a signal representative of an input expression, B. determining a grammatical and an inflectional classification of said input expression, C. outputting a signal indication of said classification-representative, D. said grammatical-inflecton classification determining step comprising the steps of storing a main dictionary comprising at least one addressable entry representative of a linguistic expression, said expression being at least one of a base form of a regular paradigm, a base form of a partially irregular paradigm, an exceptional inflected form of a partially irregular paradigm, and an element of a fully irregular paradigm, and storing linguistic information corresponding to at least one said stored entry and comprising at least one of the steps of (i) storing a first linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored regular paradigm base form-representative entry, (ii) storing an addressable second linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored partially irregular paradigm base form-representative entry, and (iii) storing an addressable third linguistic information pattern corresponding to at least one said stored fully irregular paradigm element-representative entry.
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