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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1999
Lei Duan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alexander Franz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Keiko Horiguchi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Other;
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.