Customization engine for the auto-generation of readable markup
A system and method for controlling the display of markup on a textual interface measures the difference between edited and unedited text, and utilizes values for hidden-copy tokens to create an incremental scale of values to generate different complexity levels of marked-up text to display on a user interface.
1. A method comprising:
generating an annotated diff token list by comparing a pre-edit token list and a post-edit token list for differences;
generating a copy threshold value range based on sizes of hidden-copy tokens in the annotated diff token list;
populating a list of inflection values in an inflection array based on the annotated diff token list and the copy threshold value range, the list of inflection values configured to indicate copy threshold values which cause visible changes in the display of text within an output string; and
mapping the inflection array to an interface display control to calibrate a display of the text within the output string on a user interface.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the copy threshold value range comprises a list of the lengths of copy tokens in the annotated diff token list.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein copy threshold values are determined by finding a Levenshtein Distance between the pre-edit string and the post-edit string.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the inflection array contains the copy threshold values denoting different possible lengths of character edits.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the copy threshold values from multiple inflection arrays are averaged to produce the inflection array to be mapped onto normalized scale values on the interface display control to configure the machine user interface to display textual markup.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the hidden-copy tokens further comprise copy tokens adjacent to edit tokens in the annotated diff token list.
7. A computing apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the apparatus to:
tokenize a pre-edit string and a post-edit string into a pre-edit token list and a post-edit token list;
configure a token comparator to compare the pre-edit token list and the post-edit token list to generate an annotated diff token list;
analyze the annotated diff token list with a diff token analyzer to determine the size of hidden-copy tokens adjacent to edit tokens in the annotated diff token list;
apply the annotated diff token list and a copy threshold value range to an inflection analyzer to populate a list of inflection values in an inflection array to indicate copy threshold values which cause visible changes in the display of text within an output string; and
map the inflection array to an interface display control to calibrate the display of the text within the output string on a machine user interface.
8. The computing apparatus of claim 7 wherein the copy threshold value range comprises a list of the lengths of copy tokens in the annotated diff token list.
9. The computing apparatus of claim 7 wherein the copy threshold values are determined by finding a Levenshtein Distance between the pre-edit string and the post-edit string.
10. The computing apparatus of claim 7 wherein the inflection array contains the copy threshold values denoting different possible lengths of character edits.
11. The computing apparatus of claim 7 wherein the copy threshold values from multiple inflection arrays are averaged to produce the inflection array to be mapped onto normalized scale values on the interface display control to configure the machine user interface to display textual markup.