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Text processing apparatus using modification relation analysis

  • US 5,170,349 A
  • Filed: 03/13/1990
  • Issued: 12/08/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A text processing apparatus comprising:

  • sentence holding means for holding a sentence;

    dictionary means for storing information for analyzing the sentence;

    sentence analyzing means for analyzing the sentence held in said sentence holding means to determine modification relations between words or phrases constituting the sentence using information stored in said dictionary means;

    modification information holding means for holding information about the modification relations obtained from the result of the determination by said sentence analysis means;

    sentence-structure diagram formation means for forming a diagram showing the modification relation structure of the sentence held in said sentence holding means so that a plurality of words or phrases which modify the same word or phrase are arranged in parallel according to the modification relations held in said modification information holding means and that a distance between words or phrases in modification relation with each other in the diagram reflects the distance between them in the sentence held in said sentence holding means; and

    display means for displaying the modification relation sentence-structure diagram formed by said sentence-structure diagram formation means.

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