Method and apparatus for generating and/or updating cooccurrence relation dictionary
Patent 5181163 Issued on January 19, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date: 
January 19, 2010. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
January 19, 2010. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesTranslation between natural languages System for translation of sentences from one language to another Language processing method and apparatus Method and system for generating lexicon of cooccurrence relations in natural language Patent #: 4942526 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 387598 filed on 07/31/1989US Classes:704/10, Dictionary building, modification, or prioritization704/9Natural languageExaminersPrimary: Smith, JerryAssistant: Trammell, Jim Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 015/38Foreign Application Priority Data1988-08-03 JPAbstractA method of and an apparatus for generating and/or updating a cooccurrence relation dictionary in a natural language processing system such as a machine translation system including an input/output device, a memory for storing therein dictionary information, and a processor for processing an input sentence by use of the dictionary information. In the system, a syntactic analysis is performed on the input sentence, ambiguity is examined on each possible pair of words included in the result of the syntactic analysis, and only pairs of words determined to be free from ambiguity based on the result of the examination is converted into information of a predetermined format so as to register the converted information to the cooccurrence relation dictionary for a source language. | |
