Patent ID: 6532442
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of facilitating the translating from a single base source language to multiple target languages comprising the steps of:a) utilizing a hierarchical knowledge representation of the terms and rules for both the source and target languages; b) linking corresponding concepts containing presentation symbols in the single base source language and the multiple target languages by a single machine readable manipulation symbol in the single base source language which manipulation symbol is not a presentation symbol; c) providing child concepts containing only semantically different user readable presentation symbols not found in parent or ancestor concepts; d) using inheritance of presentation symbols from the parent or ancestor concepts for the non-included symbols in the child concepts in translating from the source to target language; e) having at least one sublanguage within a hierarchial knowledge representation of concepts of one language which sublanguage is represented as child concepts inheriting presentation symbols from parent language concepts which are concepts of the one language; and f) providing hierarchial knowledge representations of translations of terms and rules of multiple languages made from the single base source language.