Integrated authoring and translation system

US6139201A · 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
• 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: Apr 15, 1996
• Grant date: Oct 31, 2000
• Expiry date: Apr 15, 2016

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.