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Generating homophonic neologisms

  • US 20030049588A1
  • Filed: 07/10/2002
  • Published: 03/13/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A homophonic neologisms generator comprising:

  • a dictionary table having a plurality of word entries each including an orthography and an associated pronunciation, said pronunciation comprising one or more phonemes, said orthography comprising one or more graphemes;

    a weightings table having a plurality of entries, each comprising a frequency of occurrence of each phoneme and associated grapheme in the dictionary table, each phoneme having an entry for each grapheme with which the phoneme is associated;

    interface means for receiving a word to be processed;

    clustering means for dividing said word into its respective phonemes; and

    neologism means for creating a word for each combination of graphemes from the weightings table that could be associated with the phonemes in the received word;

    whereby the created words are homophonically similar to the received word.

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