Information protection.

Uncategorized — December 18, 2008 at 9:44 pm

English representations of source code are interdependent.

If the meaning of a phrase is altered in one context it may affect other contexts.

A source code modification which is inconsistent with other contexts may require further modifications before it will be accepted, potentially reducing software “brittleness”.

Writing.

Uncategorized — December 18, 2008 at 9:40 pm

English sentences can be automatically formed from keywords.

Publishing.

Uncategorized — October 22, 2008 at 11:46 am

A modification to a set of substitution rules might be considered to be a publication.

Semantic Web.

Uncategorized — October 22, 2008 at 11:31 am

The semantics of information and services on the web can be represented in English.

Reverse engineering of code.

Uncategorized — October 22, 2008 at 11:29 am

Keyword search can be performed upon source code which has been translated into English.

End-user modification of code.

Uncategorized — October 22, 2008 at 11:21 am

Source code can be translated into sequences of English phrases.

These English phrases can then be combined with other English phrases.

Substitution rules.

Uncategorized — October 22, 2008 at 11:19 am

Substitution rules can be modified.

Substitution rule modifications may effect how more than one set of phrases can be combined.

Combining English phrases.

Uncategorized — October 22, 2008 at 11:12 am

English phrases can be combined to form different English phrases.

Substitution rules can be used to combine English phrases.

For example, consider the keyword search: “apple banana”:

An apple is a fruit.

A banana is a fruit.

The plural form of the word apple is apples.

The plural form of the word banana is bananas.

-> Apples and bananas are both fruits.

Keyword search.

Uncategorized — October 22, 2008 at 1:36 am

A search result may be constructed by combining phrases which contain keywords.

Compared to a keyword search method which selects a passage from a set of documents to be a search result:

This approach may reduce the time to understand the search result.

This approach may reduce the time to create content.

Secondary applications.

Uncategorized — October 22, 2008 at 1:16 am

(1) Education

(2) Governance

(3) Research

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