System and method for dynamically applying line breaks in text

摘要

A system and method for analyzing a text, and automatically applying line breaks according to set page, text and reader parameters in order to optimize reading speed and comprehension. Line breaks in the text are determined in part using semantic principles, i.e., the strength of the semantic relation between the words in a sentence, or word co-occurrence frequency. Other factors include the size of the page or screen (for both offline and online reading), and the width of the margins (which establish the maximum length of a line, depending on character font and size). The present invention increases reading comprehension over various other line break methods.

主权项

1. A method of inserting line breaks in text, comprising the steps of:
receiving a text as input into a computer memory; analyzing, using a computer microprocessor coupled to the computer memory, the text to determine the word co-occurrence frequency between adjacent words in the text; determining a maximum line length for display of the text; inserting, using a computer microprocessor coupled to the computer memory, one or more line breaks in the text between two adjacent words in the text where the word co-occurrence frequency for the two adjacent words is equal to or below a threshold limit, determined by the bigram frequency of the two adjacent words divided by the corresponding unigram frequency of the first word in the pair of adjacent words; and inserting a line break in the text if the maximum line length is reached.