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System and method for writing analysis using the linguistic discourse model

  • US 6,961,692 B1
  • Filed: 08/01/2000
  • Issued: 11/01/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system of discourse analysis usable to analyze a text, comprising:

  • a modifier determining circuit that determines if a unit of text provides context setting information that is necessary to the meaning of information encoded further along in a text;

    a operator determining circuit that determines if a unit of text provides at least one of;

    commentary on aspects of organization structure;

    logical structure; and

    expressing emotional reaction to a context;

    a content determining circuit that determines if a unit of text is a property of some entity and provides expression of at least one of;

    state;

    action; and

    belief;

    a coordination determining circuit that links a second unit of text to a first unit of text in a structural representation of discourse, where the second unit of text continues a discourse activity begun or continued by the first unit of text;

    a subordination determining circuit that links the second unit of text to the first unit of text in a structural representation of discourse if the second unit of text elaborates upon or interrupts the discourse activity begun by the first unit of text;

    a binary determining circuit that links the second unit of text to the first unit of text in a structural representation of discourse if the relationship between the first unit of text and the second unit of text is neither a coordination relationship nor a subordination relationship.

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