Patent ID: 6385568
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A translation system for translating an input text in an essentially unconstrained natural language into a meaning code using input from a user requiring knowledge of said language of said input text, said meaning code to be converted by a machine translation system to an output text in at least one different language, said system comprising:a parser recognizing sentences and words within said sentences of said input text, said parser locating said words in a term database; a meaning editor obtaining from a meaning database a plurality of meaning descriptions in said language of said input text for each of at least some of said words having plural meanings for a given part of speech in said term database, said meaning editor receiving from said user a confirmation of which of said plurality of meaning descriptions is appropriate for each said at least some of said words, and said meaning editor receiving from said user an indication of a part of speech of said words in each of said sentences; and a meaning code generator receiving data from said meaning editor and generating a meaning code corresponding to said input text, said meaning code comprising an identification code corresponding to a meaning for each word found in said input text and sufficient grammatical information to allow for said meaning code to be accurately automatically machine translated in any one of said at least one different language.