Patent ID: 7440890
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of processing data, comprising: obtaining a text passage that contains one of a “be” verb and a “have” verb; determining at least one of whether the text passage contains a noun object preceding a past participle and whether the text passage contains an active present participle verb; obtaining at least a first syntactic dependency and a second syntactic dependency from the text passage, with at least the first syntactic dependency being a dependency between a subject and the one of the “be” verb and the “have” verb; replacing the one of the “be” verb and the “have” verb with a verb derived from the second syntactic dependency to qualify a meaning of the first syntactic dependency by: transforming said text passage based on said qualified meaning, wherein said transforming comprises at least one of rewriting the text passage and producing a graph of the first and second syntactic dependencies, wherein said transforming is performed according to the following criteria: where X represents a verb generated by derivational morphology, and Y represents a noun involved in an indirect object relation.