Login or Create Free Account Search Go to Advanced Search Home Search Patents Data Services ... Help Title: Method using a programmed digital computer system for translation between natural languages Document Type and Number: European Patent EP0274281 Kind Code: Link to this page: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0274281B1.html Abstract: Abstract of A computerized translation method with universal application to all natural languages is provided. With this method, parameters are changed only when source or target languages are changed. The computerized method can be regarded as a self-contained system, having been developed to accept input texts in the source language, and look up individual (or sequences of) textwords in various dictionaries. On the basis of the dictionary information, sequences of operations are carried out which gradually generate the multiplicity of computer codes needed to express all the syntactic and semantic functions of the words in the sentence. On the basis of all the codes and target meanings in the dictionary, plus synthesis codes of such meanings, translation is carried out automatically. Procedures which generate and easily update main dictionaries, idiom dictionaries, high frequency dictionaries and compound dictionaries are integral parts of the system. Inventors: Toma, Peter Aorangi International University (80 Filleul Street P.O. Box 917 Chief Post Office, Dunnedin, 9031, NZ) | |
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