Sentence Transformer Model for Readability Correction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Computers face challenges in generating grammatically accurate and easily understandable natural language text, particularly in correcting human-written text, where they need to outperform the original human creator.

Innovation Solution

A method involving a sentence transformer model that detects sentences failing readability metrics, transforms them into simpler sentences, and evaluates these suggestions against acceptability criteria to modify electronic communications effectively.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If computer-based correction applies rules to sentences to fix existing text, then grammatical accuracy is improved, but natural language understanding and readability improvement are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegrammatical accuracyVSAvoidreadability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary natural language processing system that acts as a mediator between the original text and the corrected output. This intermediary uses machine learning models trained on linguistic data to understand and transform text while preserving meaning, bridging the gap between grammatical correction and readability improvement that rule-based systems cannot achieve alone.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes multiple parameters of the text simultaneously including sentence structure, vocabulary complexity, and syntactic organization. By adjusting these linguistic parameters through learned transformations rather than rigid rules, the system improves both grammatical accuracy and readability in an integrated manner.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If computers generate natural language text without direct programming, then flexibility and adaptability are improved, but grammatical accuracy and understandability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveflexibilityVSAvoidgrammatical accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-training machine learning models on extensive linguistic corpora before actual text generation or correction. This preliminary training embeds grammatical knowledge and linguistic patterns into the model, enabling it to generate accurate natural language text flexibly without requiring explicit programming for each grammatical rule.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing the machine learning model to autonomously generate and correct natural language text based on learned patterns. The model serves itself by internally evaluating and refining its own output, achieving both flexibility in generation and grammatical accuracy through self-correction mechanisms trained during the learning process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12265782B2Transformer model architecture for readability
Publication Date: 2025.04.01 INTUIT INC
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AI summary

A method including detecting, in a written electronic communication, an input sentence satisfying a readability metric threshold. The method also includes transforming, by a sentence transformer model, the input sentence to output suggested sentences. The method also includes evaluating the suggested sentences along a set of acceptability criteria. The method also includes determining, based on the evaluating, that the set of acceptability criteria is satisfied. The method also includes modifying, based on determining that the set of acceptability criteria is satisfied, the written electronic communication with the suggested sentences to obtain a modified written electronic communication. The method also includes returning the modified written electronic communication.