Patent ID: 8612209

Claim:
An assignment device for processing an input text comprising a first word and a second word, the assignment device comprising: at least one computer programmed to implement a method comprising: assigning word-class information to each of a plurality of words in the input text, including assigning first word-class information to the first word and second word-class information to the second word; determining whether the first word-class information and the second word-class information appear within a predetermined distance of one another; identifying, by using a mapping from combinations of word-class information to corresponding actions, an action associated with the combination of the first word-class information and the second word-class information; and executing the identified action in response to determining that the first word-class information and the second word-class information appear within the predetermined distance of one another, wherein the first word-class information identifies the first word as being a member of a first category of semantically related member words and the second word-class information identifies the second word as being a member of a second category of semantically related member words.