Patent Document ID: 9465920
Application ID: 14402333

Base Claim:
1. A system for providing assistance with reporting, comprising an associating unit for associating a structured data element of a structured document with an associated part of a report, wherein the report comprises text in a natural language, and wherein information represented by the structured data element corresponds to information represented by the associated part of the report; a determining unit for determining a change to one of the structured data element and the associated part of the report, to obtain a determined change; and a corresponding change unit for making a corresponding change to the other one of the structured data element and the associated part of the report, based on the determined change, wherein the determining unit comprises a first insert unit for inserting a representation of information into the one of the structured data element of the structured document and the associated part of the report, and the corresponding change unit comprises a second insert unit for inserting a corresponding representation of information into the other one of the structured data element and the associated part of the report, wherein the second insert unit comprises a converter for converting the inserted representation of information, being a new structured data element, by applying natural language generation to generate a piece of natural language suitable for insertion into the associated part of the report.

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Claim 3:
3. The system according to claim 1 , comprising a first cursor unit for determining a first cursor position in one of the structured document and the report; a second cursor unit for determining a second cursor position in the other one of the structured document and the report, wherein the first cursor position and the second cursor position point to the structured data element and the associated part of the report.