Patent ID: 6778970
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
A method executed by a data processor system for quantifying clarity in a natural language processing system by measuring abstractness deviation for sets of inheritance sibling nodes within a semantic inheritance network, comprising the steps of:a) identifying a set of inheritance sibling nodes; b) computing an average abstractness for the set of inheritance sibling nodes; c) computing an abstractness deviation from the average abstractness, for each inheritance sibling node in the set of inheritance sibling nodes; d) summing the abstractness deviations of each inheritance sibling node in the set of inheritance sibling nodes; e) comparing the summed abstractness deviation of a set of sibling nodes to a summed abstractness deviation of an alternative topology for the set of inheritance nodes; and f) optimizing the semantic network inheritance link topology by selecting the alternative topology with less abstractness deviation.