Computer-based method and system for monolingual document development

Patent 5995920 Issued on November 30, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

April 15, 2016. 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.

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Inventors

Assignee

Caterpillar Inc.

Application

No. 632213 filed on 04/15/1996

US Classes:

704/9Natural language

Examiners

Primary: Isen, Forester W.
Assistant: Edouard, Patrick N.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Lundquist; Steve D.

International Class

G06F 017/28

Abstract

A computer-based method and system for monolingual document development, which includes the steps of entering into a text editor input text in a source language, checking the input text against vocabulary source language constraints, and providing interactive feedback relating to the input text if non-constrained source language is present. The method and system also includes the steps of checking for syntactic grammatical errors and semantic ambiguities in the source text, and providing interactive feedback to remove syntactic grammatical errors and semantic ambiguities in the source text.

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