Improved translation system utilizing a morphological stripping process to reduce words to their root configuration to produce reduction of database size
US5490061A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 5, 1989 |
| Grant date | Feb 6, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 5, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/55
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A machine translation system having a natural language source module for accepting externally introduced text in the source language. The system is broadly based upon the concept of Chaos and conducts a divergent search in the source language, a morpheme root database, and further includes a morphological word stripping means that is to be implemented on a data processing device. The system source module provides the steps whereby each of the words in a subject clause, phrase, or sentence of the externally introduced source language text are individually compared first to data in a lexical database and if the individual words are not found among the data in the lexical database then the words are subjected to the morphological word stripping means which are directed to the affixes of the words and first to the stripping of suffixes, if any, from each word followed by the step of comparing an individual stripped word, in the absence of that particular word's stripped suffix, with the data in the morpheme root database, which comparison normally proceeds downward through descending length character strings until a morpheme root match is found. The stripping and comparison with the da…
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