Process and system for the semantic selection of document templates
First Claim
1. A process for semantically selecting a document template, comprising:
- (a) acquiring an input sentence, and(b) a processor for performing the following steps;
looking up corresponding sentential proposition(s) to said sentence in a mapping table created by domain experts and,(c) looking up corresponding sentence(s) to said sentential proposition(s) in said mapping table and,(c) retrieving document templates from a template document collection that contain one or more of said sentences,Whereby a partial solution set of document templates for each said sentential proposition is returned.
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Abstract
Document templates could improve the speed, cost, and quality of documentation if appropriate templates could be located without undue selection burden. Semantic retrieval (IR) can greatly improve the precision of finding relevant document templates. The present invention discloses a process which implements a semantic information retrieval system to locate template documents, using as search vectors the semantic content of sentences from a new partially completed document. The system enables the author to quickly and easily transfer sentences from template documents into the new document. The system provides options for the author to match against specialized template collections and subsets of template documents. A significant advantage of the present invention over other template based methods is ability to retrieve a relevant template document when there are many thousands of exemplar documents without having to construct a formal query.
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15 Claims
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1. A process for semantically selecting a document template, comprising:
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(a) acquiring an input sentence, and (b) a processor for performing the following steps;
looking up corresponding sentential proposition(s) to said sentence in a mapping table created by domain experts and,(c) looking up corresponding sentence(s) to said sentential proposition(s) in said mapping table and, (c) retrieving document templates from a template document collection that contain one or more of said sentences, Whereby a partial solution set of document templates for each said sentential proposition is returned. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A process for semantically selecting a document template, comprising:
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(a) acquiring input sentence(s), and (b) a processor for performing the following steps;
looking up corresponding sentential proposition(s) to said sentence(s) in a mapping table created by domain experts and,(c) looking up corresponding sentence(s) to said sentential proposition(s) in said mapping table and, (d) retrieving document templates from a document collection that contain one or more of said sentence(s) into separate partial solution sets and, (e) performing a Boolean “
AND”
operations on said partial solution sets,Whereby a solution set of document templates is returned. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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