Audience-Aware Vocabulary Scoring and Weighting System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Authors often struggle to communicate effectively with diverse audiences due to varying sensitivities and meanings of words, leading to potential offense, especially when the audience's traits and sensitivities are unknown.

Innovation Solution

A computing processor-based method that detects content intended for an audience, receives user profiles, scores content based on associated traits, and weights them for effective communication, suggesting substitutions or modifications to avoid offense and ensure effective communication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the author uses standard communication methods without audience analysis, then the communication process is simple and quick, but the communication effectiveness is reduced and the risk of offending the audience increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication effectivenessVSAvoidcommunication process complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the audience by retrieving user profiles and determining audience traits before the content is finalized. This advance preparation enables the subsequent vocabulary optimization to be targeted and effective, resolving the contradiction by investing complexity upfront rather than during the communication act itself.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary processing layer between the author's content and the audience. This intermediary analyzes the content against audience profiles and performs vocabulary optimization, thereby improving communication effectiveness without requiring the author to directly understand or analyze the audience themselves.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the author carefully analyzes each audience member's sensitivities and preferences, then communication effectiveness improves, but the time and effort required increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication effectivenessVSAvoidcontent preparation time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates a composite audience profile that aggregates traits from multiple individual user profiles. This universal representation allows the system to analyze and optimize content for the entire audience group simultaneously rather than individually, significantly reducing the time required while maintaining effectiveness across diverse recipients.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses pre-existing user profiles that contain audience sensitivities, preferences, and traits as templates. By copying and aggregating this existing data into composite profiles, the system avoids the need to analyze each audience member from scratch, thereby reducing preparation time while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Reliability

If the system performs detailed vocabulary analysis and substitution for each piece of content, then communication effectiveness and audience appropriateness improve, but the processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudience appropriatenessVSAvoidcontent processing speed

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs vocabulary optimization locally and selectively rather than uniformly across all content. It identifies specific words that may be problematic based on audience traits and only substitutes those particular words, leaving the rest of the content unchanged. This targeted approach maintains audience appropriateness while minimizing processing overhead.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameters of specific vocabulary words based on audience profile matching. Rather than rewriting entire messages or performing comprehensive linguistic analysis, it adjusts individual word choices to better match the audience's sensitivities and preferences, thereby improving appropriateness with minimal processing effort.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

4Reliability

If the system creates customized content versions for each audience member, then communication effectiveness maximizes, but the complexity of content management and distribution increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication effectivenessVSAvoidcontent management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple individual user profiles into a single composite audience profile that captures the essential traits and sensitivities of the entire audience. This consolidation allows the system to generate a single optimized content version that is appropriate for all audience members, avoiding the complexity of managing multiple customized versions while maintaining communication effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9898511B2Method of manipulating vocabulary depending on the audience

Publication Date: 2018.02.20 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

A system for recommending content based on the audience, implemented by a computing processor, detects content that is to be transmitted to an audience. The system receives a user profile associated with the audience, and scores the content against the user profile to produce a rating. The content is weighted based on at least one attribute associated with the user profile. The system invokes an action in response to the rating.