Patent ID: 6632251
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
A document producing support system comprising:input means for receiving manual input from a user; display means; a logon/logoff module connected to a user profile database for identifying roles of users based on a user profiles; language technology modules for language control, machine-aided translation and language task support; a processor coupled to and arranged for controlling said input means, said display means, said logon/logoff module, and said language technology modules, said system further comprising: a user profile database storing user profiles; a workflow module arranged for at least controlling which roles of users are entitled to carry out specific activities and which activities may be carried out at a specific moment, as well as tracking which activities have already been carried out and how much process time has already been spent within any of the activities, activities being defined as sets of tasks allowed to be carried out by any individual user depending on his role; a dossier database for storing texts and objects useful for producing documents; a semantic database storing semantic elements, said semantic elements each being a specific data element appearing in the form of different text fragments and objects with pre-defined contents and meanings depending on the context of use, said semantic elements being related to a linguistic structure of the documents, the linguistic structure logically ordering the content of the document; a publishing database for storing final versions of the documents generated from selected and ordered ones of the semantic elements in the linguistic structure of the document; the processor being coupled to and arranged for controlling said workflow module, said dossier database, said publishing database, and said semantic database.