Patent ID: 6961692

Claim:
A system of discourse analysis usable to analyze a text, comprising: a modifier determining circuit that determines if a unit of text provides context setting information that is necessary to the meaning of information encoded further along in a text; a operator determining circuit that determines if a unit of text provides at least one of: commentary on aspects of organization structure; logical structure; and expressing emotional reaction to a context; a content determining circuit that determines if a unit of text is a property of some entity and provides expression of at least one of: state; action; and belief; a coordination determining circuit that links a second unit of text to a first unit of text in a structural representation of discourse, where the second unit of text continues a discourse activity begun or continued by the first unit of text; a subordination determining circuit that links the second unit of text to the first unit of text in a structural representation of discourse if the second unit of text elaborates upon or interrupts the discourse activity begun by the first unit of text; a binary determining circuit that links the second unit of text to the first unit of text in a structural representation of discourse if the relationship between the first unit of text and the second unit of text is neither a coordination relationship nor a subordination relationship.