Spatial asset management system that time-tags and combines captured speech data and captured location data using a predifed reference grammar with a semantic relationship structure

A spatial asset management system apparatus for combining captured location data with captured voice data by using a reference grammar with a semantic relationship structure, said apparatus comprising:

• a reference grammar means for interpreting the captured voice data contained in a verbal observation;
• said reference grammar means incorporating a semantic relationship structure means for combining the captured voice data contained in at least two of said verbal observations;
• free speech capturing means for capturing said verbal observation containing the voice data;
• location data capturing means for capturing the location data contemporaneously with said verbal observation;
• time tagging means for time tagging said captured verbal observation to create a raw verbal observation and for also time tagging the captured location data;
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• data conversion processing means for using said reference grammar means and said semantic relationship structure means to enable the voice data in at least two of said raw verbal observations to be combined automatically with the captured location data into a single record in a geographic information system data base.

A method of combining captured location data with captured voice data by using a predefined reference grammar with a semantic relationship structure, said method comprising:

• constructing the predefined reference grammar for the voice data to be captured;
• incorporating the semantic relationship structure in the predefined reference grammar;
• capturing and time tagging a first free speech stating a first verbal observation containing a first voice data to create a first raw verbal observation;
• capturing and time tagging a second free speech stating a second verbal observation containing a second voice data to create a second raw verbal observation;
• capturing a first location data contemporaneously with said first raw verbal observation and time tagging said captured first location data;
• capturing a second location data contemporaneously with said second raw verbal observation and time tagging said captured second location data;
• using the predefined reference grammar and the semantic relationship structure, determining if said first raw verbal observation and said second raw verbal observation are related;
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• when said first raw verbal observation and said second raw verbal observation are related, combining said first raw verbal observation and said second raw verbal observation automatically with said captured first location data and said captured second location data into a single record in a geographic information system data base.

A spatial asset management system apparatus for combining captured location data with captured voice data by using a reference grammar with a semantic relationship structure, said apparatus comprising:

• a reference grammar means for interpreting the voice data captured in a first verbal observation and a second verbal observation;
• said reference grammar means incorporating a semantic relationship structure means for analyzing the captured voice data contained in said first and second verbal observations to determine if said first and second verbal observations are related;
• free speech capturing means for capturing free speech stating said first and second verbal observations containing the voice data;
• location data capturing means for capturing the location data contemporaneously with said first and second verbal observations;
• time tagging means for time tagging the voice data captured in said first and second verbal observations to create a first raw verbal observation and a second raw verbal observation and for also time tagging the captured location data for said first and second verbal observations;
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• data conversion processing means for using said reference grammar means and said semantic relationship structure means to automatically combine said first and second raw verbal observations when they are related with the captured location data for said first and second raw verbal observations into a single record in a geographic information system data base.