Integrated authoring and translation system

Patent 6139201 Issued on October 31, 2000. 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. 632780 filed on 04/15/1996

US Classes:

704/2, Translation machine704/8, Multilingual or national language support715/531, Text715/536Multilingual

Examiners

Primary: Hayes, Gail O.
Assistant: Tkacs, Stephen R.

International Classes

G06F 003/14
G06F 017/21

Abstract

The present invention is a system of integrated, computer-based processes for monolingual information development and multilingual translation. An interactive text editor enforces lexical and grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by the authors to create their text, which they help disambiguate to ensure translatability. The resulting translatable source language text undergoes machine translation into any one of a set of target languages, without the translated text requiring any postediting.

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