Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Linguistics – Natural language
Patent
1996-06-25
1999-12-07
Isen, Forester W.
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Linguistics
Natural language
707530, G06F 1738
Patent
active
059998962
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for identifying and resolving commonly confused words in a natural language parser is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a computer system parses input text made up of two or more words using a relation that maps from potentially confused words, including one word among the words of the input text, to possibly intended words. The computer system first identifies the possible parts of speech for each word of the input text including the potentially confused word. The computer system then identifies the possible parts of speech for the possibly intended word to which the relation maps the potentially confused word. Finally, the computer system applies syntactic grammar rules to the identified parts of speech such that a complete syntax tree containing a possible part of speech for the possibly intended word is produced and no complete syntax tree containing a possible part of speech for the potentially confused word is produced. According to a further embodiment of the invention, the computer system provides feedback on the input text by outputting an indication that a sentence in the input text is syntactically incorrect and outputting a further indication that the sentence in the input text would be syntactically correct if the potentially confused word in the input text was replaced with the possibly intended word.
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Heidorn George E.
Richardson Stephen Darrow
Edouard Patrick N.
Isen Forester W.
Microsoft Corporation
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