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Overview of Korea
Korea’ss Patent MT Services

ⅡMT Languages

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TechnicalOverviewi

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Overview of Korea’s Patent MT Services
1. Overview
2. MT Service for General Public via KIPRIS
3. KOMPASSO
SS foro KIPOO Examinersaes
4. K-PION for Other IPOs

• Access via KIPRIS (eng.kipris.or.kr)• Operated by KIPI on behalf of KIPO*KIPRIS (Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service)*KOMPASS (Korean Multifunctional Patent Search System)*K-PION (Korean Patent Information Online Network)*TDA (Trilateral Data Access)*KIPO (Korean Intellectual Property Office)*KIPI (Korea Institute of Patent Information)• K2E & E2K Service Available (K2E Commercial)• MT for Full Text Patent/Utility ModelDocuments• Access via KOMPASS*• Operated by KIPI on behalf of KIPO
• E2K & J2K Service Available• MT for Full Text Patent Documents• K-PION• TDA- MT of Patent Full Text
- File wrapper documents including
Notifications (examination reportreport, etcetc.))
issued by KIPO

• Operated by KIPI on behalf of KIPO

* K2E & E2K MT Engine developed by Siriussoft and ETRI
* J2K & K2J MT Engine developed by Siriussoft• MT Service Framework Under the KIPRIS for the General Public
MT ServiceCompany

MT SystemyUnder the KIPRIS

InputpTranslation
Dictionary

Translation Server

Gateway ServerTranslation Engine
ThreadManagement

Translation ServerManagement

Preprocessor(Frame Address..)
Input
Translation
EnginePattern

MechaniMechanical

ChemicalTextilesElectricall
i l&Electronic

Computer

Load Balancing

Metal

Transaction
History
including
Legal Status

Oversea
General Public

Bibliography
data
includingName andAddress

Caching

ConstrucConstruction

User

PatentPublication(PDF & XML)XML Parser

Translation

MT Service

Beverage/Food

Bio, Drugs& MedicalOfficeSupplies

Domestic
General Public

AgriculAgriculture

Others• K2E-PAT Data Coverage
IP Data Coverage
PatentUtility Model• K2E-PAT SearchUnexamined Publication

1983 ~ Onwards

Examined Publication

1979 ~ Onwards

Unexamined Publication

1998 ~ Onwards

Examined Publication

1979 ~ Onwards

All publications are daily updated.

K2E--PAT Search
K2E
General/Advanced

Keyword Search

Number Search• K2E-PAT Search result

Title
K2E
UnexamK2E
Exam• K2E-PAT MT Result (PDF Download)• KOMPASS Search Result

US Patent

Title

Drawing

Keyword Search(EN&JP)

AbstractClaims• KOMPASS MT Result(E2K)

• KOMPASS MT Result(J2K)

• Exclusive access for the patent examiners of other IPOs
• Currently used by 37 IPOs
• MT Scope in K-PION- Official Gazette, Bibliographic Information, File Wrapper Document, Transaction History

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HistoryBibliographic data
full English/English/Korean
Korean text
and KPA document

Transaction History

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MT Languagesg g
1. Overview of MT Languages
2. Example of MT
3. CoComparison
pa so ofo MTJapanese to Korean (’00)
Rule-Based engine

Korean to JapaneseChineseKorean to English (’05)
Pattern-BasedPattern
Based engine

GermanFrenchg( )Englishto Korean (’08)
Pattern-Based engine

Russian주표면 : main surface소자분리산화막 : element isolation oxide film질소 원자 : nitrogen atom주표면 : main surface소자분리산화막 : element isolation oxide film질소 원자 : nitrogen atom• Equivalent Patent Sample : JP 08-046025 A
 Original Patent (JP 08-046025 A) J2K MT Translation

 KR Family patent (KR 100199269 B1)

 K2E MT Translation of KR Family patent반도체 기판 : semiconductor substrate소자분리산화막 : element isolation oxide film질소 원자 : nitrogen atom Original Patent (JP 2008-549379 A)

 MT Translation of Siriussoft

 MT Translation of G Corp.

JapaneseSiriussoft

G Corp.

符号化부호화암호화

復号

복호암호

符号化ステ プ
符号化ステップ부호화 스텝

코딩 단계

残差信号

잔차 신호(residual signal)

잔차 신호

第１符号化
符号化デデータを復号して復号して

제 1부호화부부호화화 데이터데이터를 복호해복 해제 1 부호화된 데이터를데이터해독할 하여

所定周波数より低い帯域であるである低域の部分を符号化して소정 주파수보다 낮은 대역인 저역 부분을 부호화해특정 주파수보다 낮은대역이다이다 저역 부분을암호화하여

フィルタリングステップと、を有するようにする。

필터링 스텝을 가지도록 한다.

휘루타린구스텟뿌하면이 있도록한다.

 Original patent (KRA 10-2007-0140811)

 MT Translation of Siriussoft

 MT Translation of G Corp.

EnglishSiriussoft

G Corp.

abstract要約

サマリー

prefabricated

組み立て式

プレハブa pair

一対カップルa corrugated plate
member

骨板部材

ゴルパンブジェend part

段部端部

semicolon;』

among acorrugated platememeberb

骨板部材の中でゴルパンブジェのうち、cover覆ってやる

上書きする

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Technical Overview
1. Technical Overview of Our MT System
2. Customization Efforts for Patent Translation
1) Technical Term Building2) Sentence Pattern Building3) Characteristics of Patent Documents
4) Name Translation

3. Accuracy of Our MT System• Patented MT Technologies (ETRI)- System for recognizing multi language phrase in multi language translation
apparatus (KR 0261273)- Method for automatically correcting grammar of multinational languages
translating system based on concepts (KR 0204068)• MT Customized for Patent Domain- Patent Terminology Dictionary with IPC Information- High Understanding on features of Patent Documents• Speedy response to large volume MT requests- Translation
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Memory- Distributive computing for one MT request
oad balancing
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techniqueque- Load• Term dictionaries for K2J, J2K, K2E and E2K has been built and upgraded
MT Dictionary Status (‘10)
1,197,000 terms incorporatedp
into the MT dictionaryy1,833,000 terms incorporated into the MT dictionary
3,525,000 terms incorporated into the MT dictionary
3,655,000 terms incorporated
id iinto theh MT didictionaryiService Typeyp~2008

2009

2010

Total

K2J

1,180,000

8,000

9,000

1,197,000

J2K

1,233,000

300,000

300,000

1,833,000

K2E

3,500,000

13,00012,0003,525,000

E2K

3,007,000

300,000

348,000

3,655,000

1) Technical Term Building (1/3)① Semi-automatic Term Building Process - K2E Dictionary- Extraction of Korean – English pair using parentheses contained in the patent documents박막트랜지스터(TFT : Thin Film Transistor)증착(d증착(deposition)i i )- BilingualgPatent Title

패턴형성( tt패턴형성(patterning)i )식각(etching)1) Technical Term Building (2/3)② Manual Term Building Process- Daily Manual Process
Untranslated words during the MT process are automatically reported to our translatorstranslators.
- Yearly Manual Process
Terminologies are extracted from one year volume Korean patent documents→ New terms are identified automatically→ New terms are manually translated→ Term Validation process by experts→ Added to the Dictionary

1) Technical Term Building (3/3)③ Word Sense Disambiguation Utilizing IPC Information

Fisherman’s boat

KoreanK배English
E li hAttribute
Att ib t

IPC

Frequency
FTimesUnits

BoatVehicle

B Section

12%

ShipVehicle

B Section

10%

AbdomenBody

A Section

8%

Pear

Food

A Section

3%67%2) Sentence Pattern Building• Split-up of Extremely Long & Complex Sentences- Korean patent documents composed of 14.5 Eojeols- Korean newspaper articles composed of 12.3 Eojeols• Unique sentence patterns included in patent documents- Abstractex) the present invention relates to ~- Detailed description of the Inventionex) According to prior art… as shown in Fig. N- Brief descriptions of the drawingex) Fig
Fig. n is a view for explaining
explaining…
- The effect of the inventionex) The present invention has the effect that…
- Claimsex) …of claim n, further comprising…

3) Characteristics of Patent Documents (1/2)• Split-up of Extremely Long & Complex Sentences• Different Translation Protocols according to the tag information ofXML Patent Documents

In XML documents,
the tags help
users to identify
the different
sections as
described in theprevious slide.

NameOthOthersAbstract, Summary
Description Drawings
ClaimsDifferent translation protocols depending on the tag informationof the patent gazette3) Characteristics of Patent Documents (2/2)• Example of Different Translation Protocols according to the tag information
XML of Korean Patent Gazette

Application
Server1. Analyze
XML Tag
Information

REQ HNM KE
REQ_HNM_KE오은영 → Oh Eun Young

REQ_KE본 발명은… → This invention…

2. Adjustappropriate
translation
protocolREQ_ABS_KE본 발명은… → This invention…

REQ_DRDES_KE

3. Translate은 본 발명에..
발명에 → Drawing 1 is도1은a…

REQ_CLAIM_KE
K2ETranslation
Server폐피혁을 용매에..
용매에 → Methodologyof…

4) Name Translation• English names included in PCT Equivalent, Applicant Code, CompanyWebsites, Romanizing Rule
Applicant Search :SHARP (シャ(シャーープ)• K2E Translation Accuracy- Definitely better than general-purpose MT system- Not Perfect- But Readable, Understandable, and Useful- Electronics
Eli FiField
ld > M
Mechanicalh i l Fi
Field
ld > Ch
ChemistryiFiField
ld- Estimated to be overall 80% by ETRI

• E2K Translation Accuracy- Estimated to be overall 82% by ETRI

• J2K, K2J Translation Accuracy- Much Better than K2E & E2K