Didactic and content oriented word processing method with incrementally changed belief system

• US 6,408,266 B1
• Filed: 09/29/1999
• Issued: 06/18/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yeong Kaung Oon
• Original Assignee: Yeong Kaung Oon
• Inventors: Oon, Yeong Kaung
• Primary Examiner(s): EDOUARD, PATRICK NESTOR
• Application Number:
  US09/402,175
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 704/1, 704/9, 704/10, 707/530, 707/531, 707/532, 434/156, 434/167, 434/169
• US Class Current: 704/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

A method of implementing a didactic and content oriented word processor analysis of displayed text based upon a unified belief system of linguistic space, which space comprises words, phrases, individual sentences and/or other text. The analysis utilizes protocols defined by means for parsing and paraphrasing text, means for varied diction methods, means for solving word puzzles and means for user incremental change of the belief system, and includes the steps of: (a) selecting text displayed on a video display; (b) displaying on the video display at least one query box relating to one or more of the protocols and screens associated therewith; (c) selecting one or more of the protocols; (d) running the selected one or more protocols; and (e) displaying on the video display a text edit area adapted to receive the output of step (d).

Claims

1. A method of implementing a didactic and content oriented word processor analysis of displayed text based upon a unified belief system of linguistic space, wherein elements of the linguistic space are classified into species and each element comprises one of words, phrases, individual sentences and text, the linguistic space being defined at a species level into a multilevel hierarchy with multiple inheritance, wherein each species is adapted to belong to one of no taxon and at least one taxon at any level of said hierarchy, the analysis involving the selection of at least one protocol selected from the group of at least one parsing and paraphrasing text protocol, at least one diction technique protocol, and at least one word puzzle solution protocol, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) selecting text displayed upon a video display;

(b) displaying on the video display at least one query box relating to at least one of the protocols and screens associated therewith;

(c) selecting at least one of the protocols;

(d) running the selected at least one protocol; and

(e) displaying on the video display a text edit area adapted to receive the output of said step (d), wherein;

the output of said step (d) is stored and integrated into the unified belief system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least two protocols are selected in said step (c).

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of editing the selected text in response to the output of said step (d).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said multilevel hierarchy is based on the Linnean biological model, with a single taxon at the level of kingdom and taxa at the levels of phylum, subphylum, superclass, class, subclass, order, family, genus, subgenus, superspecies and species.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the hierarchy comprises further levels selected from the group of subclass, suborder, subfamily and subspecies.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein, moving down the Linnean hierarchy, there is a general decrease in size of the taxa.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein any linguistic element comprising one of words, phrases, individual sentences and text is classified into hierarchies with following taxa:

LEVEL;

TAXA SELECTED FROM THE GROUP INCLUDING;

KINGDOM LEVEL;

Word

PHYLUM LEVEL;

Literal, Abstract, Verse, Prose

SUBPHYLUM;

Words, Phrases, Sentences and Text

SUPERCLASS;

International, English, American, Australia, Singaporean, South African, New Zealand, Caribbean, French, German, Latin, Greek, other language

CLASS;

Ballad, Couplet, Epigram, Epitaph, Haiku, Soliloquy, Sonnet, limerick, Allegory, Elegy, Comedy, Epic, Parody, Narrative, Occasional, Satire, Tragedy, Essay, Letter, Romance, Legalese, Professional, Business, Social, Speech

SUBCLASS;

noun, pronoun, verb transitive, verb intransitive, adjective, adverb, preposition, indefinite article, definitive article, conjunction, interjection, participial adjective, plural, past participle, preterite

ORDER;

Metaphor, Aphorism, Proverb, Litote, Simile, Onomatopoeia, Idiom

FAMILY;

iambic, anapestic, dactylic, trochaic and combinations thereof

GENUS;

attributes, qualitative association

SUBGENUS;

The original term in Latin, Greek, Old English, Middle English, French, German, other language origin

SUPERSPECIES;

the root word

SPECIES;

The word, or phrase, or sentence or text itself; and

fields for synonym, antonym, literal meaning, abstract meaning and pronunciation.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein running the at least one protocol that was selected from the group of at least one protocol for parsing and paraphrasing text, at least one protocol for translating idioms to their literal meaning and at least one diction technique protocol enables the generation of a list of words or phrases corresponding to the selected text.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the group from which the at least one protocol is selected further comprises at least one pronunciation protocol, providing means for speech technology input and output.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the group from which the at least one protocol is selected further comprises at least one protocol to determine the literal meaning of at least one of an embedded idiom and an embedded metaphor within the selected text.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the group from which the at least one protocol is selected further comprises at least one protocol to determine the selected text in a paraphrase form corrected for any embedded idioms.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein at said step (a) the selected text is a single word and the group from which at least one protocol is selected further comprises a protocol to determine a metrical analysis of the word.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the output of step (d) is used as a text document input.

14. A text object classification method for use in a word processor system for classifying each of a plurality of selected text objects into a predetermined classification, the classification method being based upon a unified belief system of linguistic space, elements of the linguistic space elements being organized into species and comprising one of a word, phrase, individual sentence and text, the linguistic space being defined at a species level into a multilevel hierarchy with multiple inheritance, and wherein each species is adapted to belong to one of no taxon and at least one taxa at any level of said hierarchy, said method comprising:

storing each of said plurality of text objects;

storing at each species level in said hierarchy, for each of said plurality of text objects, data representing a distinguishing characteristic of the each text object in respect of the taxa at the each species level;

arranging said stored data in the form of a look-up table accessible to a word processor user carrying out text analysis involving the selection of at least one protocol selected from the group of at least one parsing and paraphrasing test protocol, at least one diction technique protocol, and at least one word puzzle solution protocol; and

repeating said storing and arranging steps for each of said plurality of text objects.