Patent Document ID: 20040181390
Application ID: 09883693
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1 ) A natural language processing apparatus for translating natural language into a formal language executable on a programmable device, said system comprising, a) memory for storing data; b) a data processor; c) an input device for presenting natural language text to said system; d) a text parser for partitioning said text into a sequence pf sequences of string of characters or pretokens; e) a lexicon for storing lexical terms as token associated with lexical type and reference data; f) a lexical type assignment process for assigning lexical types to pretokens by comparison to terms in the lexicon; g) a lexical insertion processor for inserting terms into the lexicon under specific control; h) a control processor for invoking lexical insertions under the condition that a pretoken is not recognized as a lexical token; i) a type contextualization processor by which refined lexical types may be reassigned to tokens depending on syntactic context; j) a type reduction matrix; k) a term reduction processor which uses said type reduction matrix to determine proper syntactic dependencies between tokens in a sentence; l) a term inversion processor for constructing chains of syntactic dependencies among lexical terms in an expression and for determining the proper dependencies between those chains; m) a syntactic tree generation processor for constructing syntactic trees representing the syntactic structure of each processed expression; n) a syntactic algebra comprising syntactic terms formally representing processed expressions; o) a syntactic representation processor for constructing syntactic terms to represent the formal syntactic structure of processed expressions; p) a semantic algebra comprising semantic objects as formal references of appropriate terms in the syntactic algebra; q) a semantic representation processor for associating internal semantic object references with terms in the syntactic algebra; r) a semantic tensor algebra comprising correlated pairs of syntactic algebraic terms and their semantic object representations; s) a formal representation processor for associating appropriate internal formal models with terms in the semantic tensor algebra; t) a formal interpretation processor for transforming terms in the syntactic algebra into equivalent expressions in an internal formal language; u) an external representation processor for associating external operational environments with internal formal models; v) an external interpretation processor for translating expressions in an internal in an internal formal language into equivalent formal expressions executable into appropriate external operational environments.