Content Availability for Natural Language Processing Tasks
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorJeffrey N. Eisen
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Abstract
An approach is provided to make content available to natural language processing (NLP) tasks. In the approach, a screen view of a document section is provided as input to a screen reader application. The screen reader application converts information displayed on the screen into a natural language format. A NLP operation is then performed on the natural language format.
Claims18
A method, in an information handling system comprising a processor and a memory, of making content available to natural language processing (NLP) tasks, the method comprising:
- in response to determining that a document section comprises non-textual image data, converting the document section into a natural language format, wherein the natural language format comprises textual data compatible with the NLP tasks, and wherein the converting comprises:
- providing a screen view of the document section to a screen reader application;
- in response to the providing, receiving, from the screen reader application, an audible speech output;
- and
- providing the audible speech output to a speech recognition application, wherein the speech recognition application converts the audible speech input into a natural language textual output that describes the non-textual image data;
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- performing a NLP operation on the natural language textual output.
An information handling system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
- a display;
- and
- a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors to make content available to natural language processing (NLP) tasks, wherein the set of instructions perform actions of:
- in response to determining that a document section comprises non-textual image data, converting the document section into a natural language format, wherein the natural language format comprises textual data compatible with the NLP tasks, and wherein the converting comprises:
- providing a screen view of the document section to a screen reader application;
- in response to the providing, receiving, from the screen reader application, an audible speech output;
- and
- providing the audible speech output to a speech recognition application, wherein the speech recognition application converts the audible speech input into a natural language textual output that describes the non-textual image data;
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- performing a NLP operation on the natural language textual output.
A computer program product stored in a computer readable storage medium, comprising computer instructions that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to make content available to natural language processing (NLP) tasks by performing actions comprising:
- in response to determining that a document section comprises non-textual image data, converting the document section into a natural language format, wherein the natural language format comprises textual data compatible with the NLP tasks, and wherein the converting comprises:
- providing a screen view of the document section to a screen reader application;
- in response to the providing, receiving, from the screen reader Application, an audible speech output;
- and
- providing the audible speech output to a speech recognition application, wherein the speech recognition application converts the audible speech input into a natural language textual output that describes the non-textual image data;
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- performing a NLP operation on the natural language textual output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.