US 10,380,708 B1Granted

Natural language based content analysis

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsOliver Nam Wong, Divya Mahalingam, William Tunstall-Pedoe, Jennifer Amy Sadler

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Abstract

Techniques are described for determining whether a submitted work, such as a manuscript submitted for publication as an electronic book, is consistent with other published works associated with a fictional world, universe, or other framework. A set of constraints may be determined based on a semantic analysis of the published works of a framework, the constraint(s) describing attributes of noun objects or relationships between noun objects in the published work(s). Statements may be determined by applying the semantic analysis to the submitted work. Inconsistencies between the statements and the constraints may be identified and communicated to reviewers, for use in determining whether to publish the work. Comparison of the statements to the constraints may be made through reference to other statements included in a knowledge base of information regarding the framework.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions;
and
at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to:
access a work submitted for publication, the work includes a framework identifier indicating a framework that is characterized by a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects comprising a first object;
perform a semantic analysis of the work to determine a first statement that describes the first object in the work, the first statement describing a relationship between the first object and a second object;
access constraint data that includes one or more constraints governing usage of the first object in works associated with the framework;
access knowledge based constraint data that includes one or more knowledge constraints generated based on the constraint data, wherein the one or more knowledge constraints govern the usage of the first object in the works associated with the framework;
compare the first statement to the one or more constraints and the one or more knowledge constraints;
based on the comparison, identify one or more inconsistencies between the first statement, the one or more constraints, and the one or more knowledge constraints;
determine one or more locations of the one or more identified inconsistencies;
determine non-publication of the work in response to the identified inconsistency;
and
generate examination result data that indicates the one or more identified inconsistencies and the one or more locations.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, instruct the at least one processor to perform actions comprising:

accessing a work associated with a framework created using other works, the framework being characterized by a plurality of objects described in the other works, the plurality of objects comprising a first object;
performing a semantic analysis of the work to determine a first statement that describes the first object in the work, the first statement describing a relationship between the first object and a second object;
accessing a first constraint governing usage of the first object in works associated with the framework;
accessing a second constraint that is generated based on the first constraint, wherein the second constraint governs the usage of the first object in the works that are associated with the framework;
comparing the first statement to the first constraint to identify one or more inconsistencies between the first statement and the first constraint;
comparing the first statement to the second constraint to identify one or more inconsistencies between the first statement and the second constraint;
determining one or more locations of the one or more inconsistencies in the work;
and
storing examination result data that indicates the one or more inconsistencies and the one or more locations.

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A computer-implemented method storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, instruct the at least one processor to perform actions comprising:

accessing a work submitted for publication, the work associated with a framework that is characterized by a plurality of objects including a first object;
performing a semantic analysis of the work to determine a first statement that describes the first object in the work, the first statement describing a relationship between the first object and a second object;
accessing a first constraint governing usage of the first object in works associated with the framework;
accessing second constraint data that includes one or more second constraints generated based on constraint data, wherein the one or more second constraints govern the usage of the first object in the works that are associated with the framework;
comparing the first statement to the first constraint to identify one or more inconsistencies between the first statement and the first constraint;
comparing the first statement to the one or more second constraints;
determining one or more locations of the one or more identified inconsistencies in the work;
and
storing examination result data that indicates the one or more inconsistencies and the one or more locations of the one or more identified inconsistencies.

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