Integrated authoring and translation system

Patent 6163785 Issued on December 19, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

May 11, 2019. 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. 309802 filed on 05/11/1999

US Classes:

715/530, Edit, composition, or storage control704/2, Translation machine704/4, Based on phrase, clause, or idiom704/8, Multilingual or national language support704/9, Natural language704/10, Dictionary building, modification, or prioritization715/500, PRESENTATION PROCESSING OF DOCUMENT715/531, Text715/536Multilingual

Examiners

Primary: Voeltz, Emanuel T.
Assistant: Hayes, John W.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Yee; James R., Kercher; Kevin M., Myers; Jeffrey L.

Foreign Patent References

0 387 226 EP. 09/08/1990
0 469 884 EP. 02/08/1992
WO 94/06086 WO 03/08/1994

International Class

G06F 017/28

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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