The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2002
Simon Corston-oliver, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Gamon, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Ringger, Issaquah, WA (US);
Robert C. Moore, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Zhu Zhang, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Simon Corston-Oliver, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Gamon, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Ringger, Issaquah, WA (US);
Robert C. Moore, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Zhu Zhang, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a sentence realization system that processes an abstract linguistic representation (ALR) of a sentence into a structure that can be fully realizable. The system includes a tree conversion component that receives the ALR and generates a basic syntax tree from the ALR. A global movement component then receives the basic syntax tree and hierarchically orders child nodes in that syntax tree relative to ancestor nodes. An intra-constituent ordering component then establishes a linear order among the nodes such that the syntax tree is fully ordered. A surface cleanup component receives the fully ordered tree and performs a number of realization operations to generate surface realizations for constituents that are still represented in an abstract way in the fully ordered syntax tree.