Real time term suggestion using text analytics

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9442909-B2
Application number	US-201213649342-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 11, 2012
Priority date	Oct 11, 2012
Publication date	Sep 13, 2016
Grant date	Sep 13, 2016

Abstract

An approach is provided in which a conversion manager receives a conversion request that identifies a conversion mode corresponding to a first category and a second category. The conversion manager identifies one or more first terms corresponding to the first category that are included in a page of text. As such, the conversion manager selects one or more second terms corresponding to the second category and, in turn, replaces the first terms with their corresponding second terms.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information handling system comprising:
one or more processors;
a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of:
receiving a conversion request that includes a real-time processing mode selection corresponding to a first category and a second category;
selecting a domain type based on a received portion of unstructured text in response to determining that the received portion of unstructured text is sufficient to perform the selection of the domain type from a plurality of domain types;
subsequent to selecting the domain type, dynamically monitoring one or more additional portions of the unstructured text entered in real-time and identifying one or more first terms included in the one or more additional portions of the unstructured text, the one or more identified first terms included in a plurality of first terms corresponding to the first category;
selecting one or more second terms based upon the selected domain type that correspond to the identified one or more first terms, the selected one or more second terms included in a plurality of second terms corresponding to the second category; and
replacing the identified one or more first terms with their corresponding selected one or more second terms.

2. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of first terms and the plurality of second terms are of a same language.

3. The information handling system of claim 2 wherein the processors perform additional actions comprising:
determining that a new text entry included in the one or more additional portions of the unstructured text matches one of the plurality of first terms;
displaying one or more of the second terms corresponding to the new text entry;
receiving a conversion selection from the user that selects one of the displayed second terms; and
replacing the new text entry with the selected second term.

4. The information handling system of claim 2 wherein the first category is a laymen category and the second category is a profession-specific category.

5. The information handling system of claim 2 wherein the first category is a profession-specific category and the second category is a layman category.

6. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the domain type is selected from the group consisting of a technical domain type, a medical domain type, a legal domain type, and a professional domain type.

7. A computer program product stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, comprising computer program code that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions comprising:
receiving a conversion request that includes a real-time processing mode selection corresponding to a first category and a second category;
selecting a domain type based on a received portion of unstructured text in response to determining that the received portion of unstructured text is sufficient to perform the selection of the domain type from a plurality of domain types;
subsequent to selecting the domain type, dynamically monitoring one or more additional portions of the unstructured text entered in real-time and identifying one or more first terms included in the one or more additional portions of the unstructured text, the one or more identified first terms included in a plurality of first terms corresponding to the first category;
selecting one or more second terms based upon the selected domain type that correspond to the identified one or more first terms, the selected one or more second terms included in a plurality of second terms corresponding to the second category; and
replacing the identified one or more first terms with their corresponding selected one or more second terms.

8. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the plurality of first terms and the plurality of second terms are of a same language.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the information handling system performs additional actions comprising:
determining that a new text entry included in the one or more additional portions of the unstructured text matches one of the plurality of first terms;
displaying one or more of the second terms corresponding to the new text entry;
receiving a conversion selection from the user that selects one of the displayed second terms; and
replacing the new text entry with the selected second term.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the first category is a laymen category and the second category is a profession-specific category.

11. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the first category is a profession-specific category and the second category is a layman category.

12. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the domain type is selected from the group consisting of a technical domain type, a medical domain type, a legal domain type, and a professional domain type.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bhatt Dhruv A
• Mcneil Kristin E
• Patel Nitaben A

Classifications

• G06F40/247

  Thesauruses; Synonyms · CPC title

• G06F40/232

  Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation · CPC title

• G06F40/157 Primary

  using dictionaries or tables · CPC title

• G06F40/40

  Processing or translation of natural language (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30) · CPC title

• G06F40/166 Primary

  Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting · CPC title