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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroshi Nomiyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36441902 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for machine translation of language is disclosed. For each translation pattern, qualified words and corresponding translations are extracted. The invention generalizes words by converting them into concepts which are more general and can be applied to many inputs. A partial thesaurus is generated that describes hierarchies of words and concepts that are hypernyms of these words. Based on frequency information obtained for the words, an importance value is computed for each concept. Importances are used to determine the possibility of generalizing concepts in the translation.