PATENT SPECIFICATION DEBUGGING TOOL AND PATENT SPECIFICATION DEBUGGING TOOL PROGRAM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a patent specification debugging tool that graphically displays a claim sentence, extracts technical elements in the claim sentence, clearly displays a relation among the technical elements in the graphical display, and outputting those that should be discussed again as the claim sentences. PSOLUTION: An inputted Japanese claim sentence is subjected to a morpheme analysis by using a morpheme dictionary for analyzing the claim sentence. A technical element that is positioned before a case postpositional particle 'to' and the one specified from words and phrases that are positioned after a directive such as "aforesaid" are extracted. A tree structure of a subject that is an element for specifying an invention and a technical element directly related to the subject is created. The relation among the technical elements is graphically displayed on the tree structure to allow the relation among the technical elements to be understood clearly. The phrases and words having broader terms of the technical elements in the claim sentence are detected and outputted, thus outputting the usage of phrases and words having the broader terms, problems in grammar, and problems in the usage of the technical elements, and easily discussing the claim sentence again. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO