| 摘要 |
A method of producing a graphical representation of a written description of an apparatus, method, system or device is disclosed. The written description includes one or more independent sentence definitions and, for at least one of said independent sentence definitions, at least one further limiting dependent sentence definition. Each of the independent sentence definitions and the dependent sentence definitions is constructed from one or more clauses describing an identifiable technical feature of said apparatus, method, system or device. The method comprising the steps of, at a data processing system: receiving first input data identifying a project set of sentence definitions; receiving second input data identifying independent sentence definitions; receiving third input data identifying dependent sentence definitions along with an indication of the sentence definition or definitions upon which said dependent sentence definitions are dependent; receiving fourth input data identifying clauses along with an indication of the sentence definitions of which they form a part thereof; building a graphical model of the relationship between said clauses showing how said clauses combine to form said sentence definitions; and producing output data showing an eye-readable graphical representation of said graphical model.
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