Method and apparatus of translation based on patterns
US5640575A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 19, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jun 17, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 19, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/45
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A device which translates a written source language pattern of a first language to a target language pattern of another written language, which includes a computer with a memory. There are a plurality of translation patterns stored in the memory. Each translation pattern includes a source language pattern; a variable that is identified with a portion of the source language pattern; and a target language pattern which is a translation corresponding to the base source language pattern. The variable is either a singular variable which corresponds to a singular source language pattern, or a nested variable which corresponds to a nested source language pattern. Each nested source language pattern is a combination of two or more singular source language patterns. A portion compares a text sentences to one or more nested source language patterns and singular source language pattern to determine if there is a match between the text sentence and the nested or the singular source language patterns.
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