Tool for automatically highlighting distancing level in textual documents, comprises means to determine number of clauses which contain either hypothetical conditional or conditional present tenses

摘要

The number of clauses in a document which contain conditional hypothetical or present conditional without condition tenses is automatically determined and used to produce a rate of distancing per sentence. In a database evolving in time with new documents averages and standard deviations of the rates of distancing at successive instants are detected when they exceed predetermined thresholds