Patent Document ID: 7562008
Application ID: 10876206

Base Claim:
1. A machine translation system for translating a complex sentence in a first language into two or more sentences in a second language, wherein said complex sentence comprises one or more adjectival clauses, coordination clauses, or appositions, the system comprising: a memory; and a processor implementing: a grammar analysis module for identifying main clause, embedded clauses, phrases and all possible cohesive ties linking said embedded clauses to said main clause, said grammar analysis module being associated with a database of complex sentences in said first language; a cohesive tie stripping module for identifying and stripping down said possible cohesive ties; a punctuation module for applying a weighted punctuation for segmentation to said complex sentence to decompose said complex sentence into simple sentences; and a translation module for translating said decomposed simple sentences and phrases into said second language; wherein said cohesive ties are stripped down before applying said weighted punctuation for segmentation; wherein if one or more words were omitted in said complex sentence by ellipsis, said grammar analysis module is invoked to add said omitted words back to said complex sentence to make said complex sentence grammatically complete before said decomposition of said complex sentence into said simple sentences; wherein said punctuation module is invoked to change one or more comma to a period; wherein said punctuation module is invoked to supply one or more comma or periods; wherein said punctuation module applies a more weighted punctuation to a nonrestrictive clause than to a restrictive clause; wherein said translation module is invoked after said decomposition of said complex sentence into said simple sentences; and wherein said possible cohesive ties comprises any of: time and place relaters, logical connectors, substitution, disclosure reference, comparison, ellipsis and structure parallelism.

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Claim 2:
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein said first language is English and said second language is Chinese.