Automatic context sensitive language generation, correction and enhancement using an internet corpus

A computer-assisted language generation system comprising:

• sentence retrieval functionality, operative on the basis of an input text containing words, to retrieve from an internet corpus a plurality of sentences containing words which correspond to said words in the input text;
• and
• sentence generation functionality operative using said plurality of sentences to generate at least one correct sentence giving expression to the input text,
• said sentence generation functionality comprising:
• sentence simplification functionality operative to simplify said sentences retrieved from said internet corpus;
• simplified sentence grouping functionality for grouping similar simplified sentences provided by said sentence simplification functionality;
• simplified sentence group ranking functionality for ranking groups of said similar simplified sentences;
• and
• sentence selection functionality operative to select at least one of said similar simplified sentences as said at least one correct sentence based on said ranking;
• said simplified sentence group ranking functionality operates using
• an extent to which the group includes words which do not correspond to the words in an independent phrase and their alternatives.