Integrated authoring and translation system

US5677835A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Caterpillar Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jaime G. Carbonell · Pittsburgh, US
• Sharlene L. Gallup · Morton, US
• Timothy J. Harris · East Peoria, US
• James W. Higdon · Lacon, US
• Dennis A. Hill · East Peoria, US
• David C. Hudson · Edelstein, US
• David Nasjleti · Morton, US
• Mervin L. Rennich · Dunlap, US
• Peggy M. Andersen · Pittsburgh, US
• Michael M. Bauer · Pittsburgh, US
• Roy F. Busdiecker · Pittsburgh, US
• Philip J. Hayes · Pittsburgh, US
• Alison Huettner · Pittsburgh, US
• Bruce M. McLaren · Pittsburgh, US
• Irene Nirenburg · Pittsburgh, US
• Eric H. Riebling · Pittsburgh, US
• Linda M. Schmandt · Pittsburgh, US
• John F. Sweet · Pittsburgh, US
• Kathryn L. Baker · Redwood City, US
• Nicholas D. Brownlow · Pittsburgh, US
• Alexander Mark Franz · Palo Alto, US
• Susan E. Holm · Pittsburgh, US
• John Robert Russell Leavitt · Pittsburgh, US
• Deryle W. Lonsdale · Via Enrico Fermi, US
• Teruko Mitamura · Pittsburgh, US
• Eric Nyberg · Pittsburgh, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 1994
• Grant date: Oct 14, 1997
• Expiry date: Dec 22, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F40/58
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

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.