Patent ID: 6760695
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An automated natural language processing system, comprising:computer storage means; means for receiving input textual information in a source natural language and for storing the input textual information in the computer storage means, the input textual information including kanjis and kanas wherein kanjis are ideograms which each has some semantic content and kanas are syllabic characters which each represents a sound without any inherent meaning, the source natural language being one whose orthography lacks identifiers marking word and phrase boundaries; and a translation engine for accessing the computer storage means and for translating the input textual information in the source natural language into output textual information in a target natural language, the translation engine including a parser for parsing the input textual information as a step in the translation process, the parser parsing the input textual information by transforming at least some of the kanas in at least a portion of the input textual information into alphabetic letters of the source natural language thereby allowing the presence of a word or morpheme boundary to be recognized in the middle of a kana.