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US Patent 6163785 - Integrated authoring and translation system

US Patent Issued on December 19, 2000
Estimated Patent Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 11, 2019Estimated 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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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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Inventors

Assignee

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

Field of Search

704/1, LINGUISTICS704/2, Translation machine704/4, Based on phrase, clause, or idiom704/7, Storage or retrieval of data704/8, Multilingual or national language support704/9, Natural language704/10Dictionary building, modification, or prioritization

Examiners

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

Attorney, Agent or Firm

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Issued on: 10/14/1997
Inventor: Carbonell, et al.
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Issued on: 11/30/1999
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Foreign Patent References

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

International Class

G06F 017/28

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