Robert J Harlow

US Patent:

8074171, Dec 6, 2011

Filed:

Jun 6, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/134293

Inventors:

Robert J. Harlow - Louisville CO, US
Jeffrey J. Smith - Raleigh NC, US
David T. Windell - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715255, 715256

Abstract:

A method for providing notification of content potentially omitted from within an active document in a document preparation application comprises defining a natural language model for a set of phrasal forms associating each phrasal form with a content type; parsing a textual content of the active document to generate one or more natural language tokens; accessing the natural language model to identify each of the one or more natural language tokens that matches with a phrasal form; generating a list of expected content items having an expected content item for each of the one or more natural language tokens that matches with a phrasal form; scanning the active document to attempt to locate each expected content item; and displaying a notification of each expected content item not located. Each expected content item is generated based upon the content type associated with the corresponding matching phrasal form in the natural language model.