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United States Patent | 5,884,247 |
Christy | March 16, 1999 |
Language translation is accomplished by representing natural-language sentences in accordance with a constrained grammar and vocabulary structured to permit direct substitution of linguistic units in one language for corresponding linguistic units in another language. Preferably, the vocabulary is represented in a series of physically or logically distinct databases, each containing entries representing a form class as defined in the grammar. Translation involves direct lookup between the entries of a reference sentence and the corresponding entries in one or more target languages.
Inventors: | Christy; Sam (Cambridge, MA) |
Assignee: |
Dialect Corporation
(North Cambridge,
MA)
|
Appl. No.: | 08/740,654 |
Filed: | October 31, 1996 |
Current U.S. Class: | 704/7 ; 704/4 |
Current International Class: | G06F 17/28 (20060101); G06F 017/28 () |
Field of Search: | 704/1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,277 395/12 |
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