System and method for determining and controlling the impact of text
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1. A computer program stored on a computer readable medium, comprising:
- a vocabulary database comprisingmachine readable data corresponding to a plurality of vocabulary words and a lexical impact value respectively corresponding to each vocabulary word;
comparison instructions comprising machine readable instructions for comparing a plurality of text words of a piece of text to the vocabulary database to determine a lexical impact value for each text word that corresponds to a vocabulary word; and
output instructions comprising machine readable instructions for outputting the lexical impact value of the text words that correspond to vocabulary words as output data for users to make text word selections or assess the lexical impact values of words in a computer system;
wherein the lexical impact value comprises a plurality of constituent sub-values, with each constituent sub-value corresponding to lexical impact with respect to a different type of emotional response;
wherein lexical impact is an emotional response that can be expected in a reader due to an underlying associative meaning of an individual word taken out of context rather than an emotional response that the individual word can be expected to have on the reader due to the meaning of the individual word in context,wherein the lexical impact values are derived from psychosocial dictionaries, opinions, experiments, or a combination thereof.
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Abstract
A computer program that indicates lexical impact of various words in a text and provides various statistics relating to lexical impact of the text. Also, a ranked thesaurus for listing alternative words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, related), along with an indication of their relative lexical impact (item 141). The thesaurus may alternatively rank words according to ranking system.
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1. A computer program stored on a computer readable medium, comprising:
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a vocabulary database comprising machine readable data corresponding to a plurality of vocabulary words and a lexical impact value respectively corresponding to each vocabulary word; comparison instructions comprising machine readable instructions for comparing a plurality of text words of a piece of text to the vocabulary database to determine a lexical impact value for each text word that corresponds to a vocabulary word; and output instructions comprising machine readable instructions for outputting the lexical impact value of the text words that correspond to vocabulary words as output data for users to make text word selections or assess the lexical impact values of words in a computer system; wherein the lexical impact value comprises a plurality of constituent sub-values, with each constituent sub-value corresponding to lexical impact with respect to a different type of emotional response; wherein lexical impact is an emotional response that can be expected in a reader due to an underlying associative meaning of an individual word taken out of context rather than an emotional response that the individual word can be expected to have on the reader due to the meaning of the individual word in context, wherein the lexical impact values are derived from psychosocial dictionaries, opinions, experiments, or a combination thereof. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computer program stored on a computer readable medium, comprising:
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a thesaurus database comprising machine readable data corresponding to thesaurus words and lexical impact values for each thesaurus word; input instructions comprising machine readable instructions for receiving a requested look-up word; retrieval instructions comprising machine readable instructions for retrieving thesaurus words corresponding to the look-up word; and output instructions comprising machine readable instructions for outputting the thesaurus word and the corresponding lexical impact values for users to make text word selections or assess the lexical impact values of words in a computer system; wherein lexical impact is an emotional response that can be expected in a reader due to an underlying associative meaning of a selected thesaurus word taken out of context rather than an emotional response that the selected thesaurus word can be expected to have on the reader due to the meaning of the selected thesaurus word in context, wherein the lexical impact values are derived from psychosocial dictionaries, opinions, experiments, or a combination thereof. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer program stored on a computer readable medium, comprising:
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a thesaurus database comprising machine readable data corresponding to thesaurus groupings and rankings of each word of each thesaurus grouping with respect to at least one type of lexical impact; input instructions comprising machine readable instructions for receiving a requested look-up word; retrieval instructions comprising machine readable instructions for retrieving a thesaurus grouping corresponding to the look-up word; and output instructions comprising machine readable instructions for outputting the thesaurus grouping and its respective corresponding lexical impacts for users to make text word selections or assess the lexical impact values of words in a computer system; wherein lexical impact is an emotional response that can be expected in a reader due to an underlying associative meaning of a selected thesaurus word taken out of context rather than an emotional response that the selected thesaurus word can be expected to have on the reader due to the meaning of the selected thesaurus word in context, wherein the lexical impact values are derived from psychosocial dictionaries, opinions, experiments, or a combination thereof. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. A computer program stored on a computer readable medium, comprising:
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a vocabulary database comprising machine readable data corresponding to a plurality of phrases and a lexical impact value respectively corresponding to each phrase; comparison instructions comprising machine readable instructions for comparing a plurality of text phrases of a piece of text to the vocabulary database to determine a lexical impact value for each text phrase that corresponds to a vocabulary phrase; and output instructions comprising machine readable instructions for outputting the lexical impact value of the text phrases that correspond to vocabulary phrases as output data for users to make text word selections or assess the lexical impact values of words in a computer system; wherein the lexical impact value comprises a plurality of constituent sub-values, with each constituent sub-value corresponding to lexical impact with respect to a different type of emotional response; wherein lexical impact is an emotional response that can be expected in a reader due to an underlying associative meaning of an individual phrase taken out of context rather than an emotional response that the individual phrase can be expected to have on the reader due to the meaning of the individual phrase in context, wherein the lexical impact values are derived from psychosocial dictionaries, opinions, experiments, or a combination thereof.
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