System and method to compile instructions to manipulate linguistic structures into separate functions
US6529865B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 18, 1999 |
| Grant date | Mar 4, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 18, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/253
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A grammar programming language (“GPL”) compiler compiles each rule in a natural language grammar into a separate function that can be invoked by a translation system to apply the rule to a representation of a natural language expression. The GPL compiler can output the functions for the rules as source code for a standard computer programming language to be further compiled into object code that can be directly executed by a computer processor. The GPL compiler can also generate special functions for each rule to enable multi-layered operations on the representations and to handle the processing of representations of ambiguous expressions.
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