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US 6,446,081 B1Granted
Data input and retrieval apparatus
AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorKeith Robert Preston
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Abstract
Input apparatus for a data processing system includes a processor, storage and graphical display in which a free-form source document is input and processed to parse a source document to locate semantically meaningful entities and to store corresponding content data. The graphical display is arranged to generate a visual representation of the source document in which the semantically meaningful entities are represented by pictorial elements.
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Apparatus for use in identifying semantic ambiguities, comprising
- (i) input means, including a text input means;
- (ii) storage means;
- (iii) processing means arranged to parse input text to
- a. identify semantically meaningful elements in the input text;
- b. derive relationships between the identified semantically meaningful elements;
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- c. store a group of the identified semantically meaningful elements, and data defining the derived relationships, in the storage means;
- (iv) graphical display means, which, in response to said parsing of the input text, is arranged to generate a visual representation of said input text in which the identified semantically meaningful elements are represented by pictorial elements and the derived relationships therebetween are represented by linking elements interconnecting the pictorial elements.
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Apparatus for use in identifying semantic ambiguities, said apparatus comprising:
- (i) input means including a text input means;
- (ii) storage means;
- (iii) processing means arranged to parse input text to
- a. identify semantically meaningful elements in the input text;
- b. derive relationships between the identified semantically meaningful elements;
- c. store a group of the identified semantically meaningful elements, and data defining the derived relationships, in the storage means;
- d. store access level information associated with the semantically meaningful elements in the group;
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- graphical display means, which, in response to said parsing of the input text, is arranged to generate a visual representation of said input text in which the identified semantically meaningful elements are represented by pictorial elements and
- the derived relationships therebetween are represented by linking elements interconnecting the pictorial elements.
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