Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Linguistics – Natural language
Patent
1997-07-31
2000-06-20
Thomas, Joseph
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Linguistics
Natural language
704 10, G06F 1727
Patent
active
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ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to characterizing the sense of an occurrence of a polysemous word in a representation of a dictionary. In a preferred embodiment, the representation of the dictionary is made up of a plurality of text segments containing word occurrences having a word sense characterization and word occurrences not having a word sense characterization. The embodiment first selects a plurality of the dictionary text segments that each contain a first word. The embodiment then identifies from among the selected text segments a first and a second occurrence of a second word. The identified second occurrence of the second word has a word sense characterization. The embodiment then attributes to the first occurrence of the second word sense characterization of the second occurrence of the second word.
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