Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Linguistics
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-29
2002-06-18
Edouard, Patrick N. (Department: 2654)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Linguistics
C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06408266
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to the method of word processing.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the main, present day word processing techniques produce documents that are designed for appearance, where appearance equates with success. They downgrade the reality and exalts form and discards substance. The present day word processor is a big leap forward compared to the typewriter, with features such as saving the file on disk, spell check and grammar check. They produce stylish documents with a wide array of fonts, but provide no help in the matter of content, specifically in the generation of elegant verse and the appropriate use of rhymes, metaphors and other idiomatic constructs. Present day word processing techniques do not help with the substance or actual content of a document by the provision of parsing functions (other than spelling and grammar,) and provides no array of diction functions for words, phrases, sentences or text to overcome the writing block. Given equal linguistic abilities, a user with a prior art word processor has more or less the same chance as say his compatriot, utilising a conventional typewriter, to have his letter published in the letters column of the daily newspaper. This present invention is designed to help the student, the author or the budding poet find the right word or expression for his ideas and maintain the music in his verse—as it does meter analysis of the text.
Perhaps the chief weakness of present day word processing techniques is that it is in essence a non plastic entity as it does not have a computer model of a unified linguistic belief system about language. It does not integrate and represent the growth in linguistic space (for definition see glossary) of the user. Present day word processing techniques do not create an environment whereby the linguistic space of the user, as he develops in the linguistic sense say for example a student from grade 2 to a pre-university student, is captured and encapsulated in the belief system of the word processor.
Present day word processing techniques are not designed to capture the essence and meaning of new words, idioms, verse, prose, letters, essays that the user may encounter or generates himself. In this invention, any input into the word processing technique is logged and can be integrated into the belief system of this word processing technique. This augmented belief system can then be brought to bear on the parsing/diction problem at the next iteration of use of the word processing technique.
Rather than concentrate on the form or appearance of documents, this didactic word processing technique concentrates on the substance or content of the document being read (parsed) or written. It is described as didactic as it is designed to help the student master the meaning, structure, rhythm and idiom of the language, in addition to saving up everything he has learnt and any literary output he has produced by incorporation into the belief system of the invention.
This word processing technique enables the user, such as an emergent language student. working from a text edit area called the word bench, 1) to parse and translate difficult textual passages from an idiomatic form to its literal form, or from one literal form into another 2) to write better, through improved diction methods for words, phrase, individual sentences, verse and prose and 3) problem solving of word puzzles and 4) Incrementally change the belief system by the addition of new words, phrases, sentences or documents. While the invention discusses the word processing technique implementation for the English language. the system and method is applicable to all alphabetic based languages such as French, German, Pinyin and Bahasa Malaysia etc.
An ideal word processing technique should have the means to 1) to parse a textual passage and explain both the literal meanings and meanings of idiomatic expressions embedded in the text 2) to write better English by providing the user, such as an emergent language student, a rich array of diction methods operating on the belief system, to provide the right word or expression for the occasion 3) didactic function of building an intimacy with English, especially its idiom, by providing the means to solve crossword puzzles and solving problems associated with word games such as hangman and Scrabble (trademark of its respective owner).
Word games such as crossword puzzles, anagrams and Scrabble are popular recreations, an efficient method to solve word puzzles will save countless billions of potentially valuable hours and 4) allow the user to add a part of or all his literary output to be incorporated into the belief system of the word processing technique 5) allow the user to add words, phrases, proverbs or any figure of speech, literary gems from one line to many thousands of lines to be incorporated into the belief system of the word processing technique.
The ideal word processing technique should solve four types of problems of the following nature 1)reading comprehension problem (parsing) 2)writing problem of the diction type 3)intimacy with the language problem that acts as impediment to solving word game puzzles 4) dynamic incremental addition to the belief system of the word processing technique to include user's own literary work to the extent of the users entire lifetime opus, and literary gems produced by others.
The following details the ideal word processing technique as follows:
1) Reading or comprehension (parsing) Problem
Current word processing techniques are not designed from the viewpoint of helping the emergent student of English to read and comprehend a document—the only exception being grammar checking. Current word processing techniques do not help build an intimacy with the language in the areas of rhythm(metrical analysis) rhyme, metaphor and other idiom processing. There exists a large pool of emergent readers and writers in our schools, and a large pool of students of English as a second language who are baffled by the English text documents. These documents may be printed on paper or computer documents downloaded from the Internet or held on disks. The difficulty may be individual words or more often the greater difficulty is that of coping with the English idiom. The English idiom can be perplexing for the newcomer to English and also to the computer parser in attempting to ‘understand’ English. For instance the phrase ‘on ice’ can mean literally on ice such as standing in the Antarctic or it may mean ‘in limbo’. In multicultural societies like Australia, Canada and the United States—the migrants who have adopted English as a second language often have difficulty expressing themselves. The problem is inappropriate or lack of idiom and the general lack of a congruent meter (rhythm) to their writing. Often the newcomer to English misses out on the subtlety of alliteration and assonance, thereby choosing the wrong word for the occasion. The glaring weakness is in the province of idiom. The components of idiom causing difficulties for the student may be metaphors, similes metonymy, proverbs or other figures of speech. This content oriented word processing technique helps the student develop intimacy with the language and master the idiom of, in this instance the English language. This invention does so by provision of support for parsing of computer text documents to explain underlying idiom and provision of diction methods to help the user deploy the correct words and idioms in his writing.
Writing Problem—Diction Difficulties
Current word processing techniques are designed to produce nice documents. Often it incorporates a spelling checker and may offer some advice on grammar. For the emergent writer it is hard to get started as there is no ready source of words, metaphors or suitable text to get him or her started. With the content oriented word processing technique suggestion of words and commonly used idiomatic expressions comprising the popular metaphors are proffered by use of a attribute (see genus) search or alternative diction strate
Cohen & Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane
Edouard Patrick N.
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