Digital computing apparatus for preparing document text
First Claim
1. Digital computing apparatus for preparing document text from document data input by a user, the document text including a series of sentences, said apparatus comprising:
- means for preparing document text from the document data input by the user; and
sentence significance means for determining a significance value of each sentence of the series of sentences of the document text, according to a function of a determined relation between each sentence and the immediately preceding sentence in the series of sentences, wherein a predetermined word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence in the series of sentences is a connector of that sentence with respect to the immediately preceding sentence, said sentence significance means includingmeans for assigning an initial significance value to each sentence in the series of sentences, andmeans for computing an updated significance value for each sentence in the series of sentences according to a function of the connector of the sentence and a current significance value of the immediately preceding sentence.
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Abstract
A digital computing apparatus for preparing document text includes a sentence significance decision section for calculating a significance value of each sentence of document data according to a relation between each sentence and other sentences of the document data. The apparatus can also include a topic extraction section for extracting a topic for each sentence of the document data. A format structure extraction section extracts format structure from document data according to predetermined rules. The format structure, corresponding sentence significance values and topics are sent to an output section. The output section displays this information to the user. The sentence retrieval section retrieves sentences including a user inputted reference word from document data. Then the sentence retrieval section selects a sentence which is related to the reference word from retrieved sentences according to the sentence significance value or the topic. The output section displays only the selected sentence to user.
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26 Claims
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1. Digital computing apparatus for preparing document text from document data input by a user, the document text including a series of sentences, said apparatus comprising:
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means for preparing document text from the document data input by the user; and sentence significance means for determining a significance value of each sentence of the series of sentences of the document text, according to a function of a determined relation between each sentence and the immediately preceding sentence in the series of sentences, wherein a predetermined word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence in the series of sentences is a connector of that sentence with respect to the immediately preceding sentence, said sentence significance means including means for assigning an initial significance value to each sentence in the series of sentences, and means for computing an updated significance value for each sentence in the series of sentences according to a function of the connector of the sentence and a current significance value of the immediately preceding sentence. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. Digital computing apparatus for preparing document text from document data input by a user, the document text including a series of sentences, said apparatus comprising:
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means for preparing document text from the document data input by the user; and topic determining means for determining a topic of each sentence in the series of sentences of the document text, said topic determining means including means for identifying each noun in each of a first predetermined number of successive sentences of the document text, means for selecting from the identified nouns only those nouns that occur more than a second predetermined number of times in the successive sentences, means for deleting predetermined unnecessary nouns from the selected nouns thereby leaving remaining selected nouns, and means for determining that the topic is represented by the remaining selected nouns. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. In a document processing system for preparing document text from document data input by a user, wherein the document text includes a series of sentences, a method for providing to the user information regarding document text, said method comprising the steps of:
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inputting document data from the user; preparing document text from the document data input by the user; determining a significance value of each sentence of the series of sentences of the document text, according to a function of a determined relation between each sentence and the immediately preceding sentence in the series of sentences; and outputting to the user the determined significance values of the sentences; wherein a predetermined word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence in the series of sentences is a connector of that sentence with respect to the immediately preceding sentence, and wherein said step of determining a significance value includes the substeps of assigning an initial significance value to each sentence in the series of sentences, and computing an updated significance value to each sentence in the series of sentences according to a function of the connector of the sentence and a current significance value of the immediately preceding sentence. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. In a document processing system for preparing document text from document data input by a user, wherein the document text includes a series of sentences, a method for providing to the user information regarding the document text, said method comprising the steps of:
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inputting document data from the user; preparing document text from the document data input by the user; determining a topic of each sentence in the series of sentences of the document text; and outputting to the user the determined topics of the sentences, wherein the topic determining step includes the substeps of identifying each noun in each of a first predetermined number of successive sentences, selecting from the identified nouns only those nouns that occur more than a second predetermined number of times in the successive sentences, deleting predetermined unnecessary nouns from the selected nouns thereby leaving remaining selected nouns, and determining that the topic is represented by the remaining selected nouns. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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