Electronic Device Processing Newly Coined Words via Replacement and Grammar Correction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices struggle to recognize newly coined words, leading to failures in understanding user inputs, as they rely on outdated word databases that do not include newly created or contextually modified words.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device equipped with a communication module, memory, and processor that identifies newly coined words, replaces them with alternative words, and corrects grammatical errors, enabling the device to process and transmit sentences effectively, even when using newly coined terms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If an electronic device uses an existing word database for sentence recognition, then the device can efficiently process common words, but it fails to recognize newly coined words

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesentence recognition accuracyVSAvoidability to recognize newly coined words
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by identifying newly coined words before final sentence recognition, replacing them with alternative words from the database, and correcting grammatical errors in advance. This preliminary processing ensures that the sentence recognition system can handle newly coined words that are not in the existing database.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary processing step between receiving the input sentence and final recognition. This intermediary layer includes: (1) identifying newly coined words, (2) replacing them with alternative words from the database, and (3) correcting grammatical errors. This intermediary process bridges the gap between the existing database and newly coined words.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If an electronic device replaces newly coined words with alternative words, then the device can process sentences with newly coined words, but grammatical errors may be introduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to process newly coined wordsVSAvoidgrammatical correctness
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where the replacement of newly coined words with alternative words is followed by grammatical error correction. The correction process uses the context of the sentence and knowledge about the alternative word to identify and fix any grammatical errors introduced during replacement, ensuring the final sentence is grammatically correct.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If an electronic device processes sentences with multiple processing steps, then the device can handle newly coined words accurately, but the processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy in handling newly coined wordsVSAvoidsentence processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The sentence processing system is segmented into distinct functional modules: (1) newly coined word identification module, (2) alternative word replacement module, and (3) grammatical error correction module. Each module performs a specific function, making the overall complex process more manageable and maintainable while improving accuracy in handling newly coined words.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12056437B2Electronic device and method for converting sentence based on a newly coined word
Publication Date: 2024.08.06 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is an electronic device including a communication module, a memory, and at least one processor operatively connected to the communication module and the memory, and the memory stores instructions configured to, when executed, enable the at least one processor to: receive a first sentence via the communication module; identify a first newly coined word included in the first sentence; obtain a second sentence by identifying a first alternative word corresponding to the first newly coined word, and replacing the first newly coined word in the first sentence with the first alternative word; obtain a third sentence by correcting a grammatical error in the second sentence based on the first alternative word occurring the grammatical error when replacing the first newly coined word; and transmit the third sentence to an external device via the communication module. Other embodiments can be made.