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Patent Title: Method and apparatus of translation based on patterns

Assignee: IBM
Patent Number: US5640575
Issue Date: 06-17-1997
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File Date:10-19-1994

Abstract: A device which translates a written source language pattern of a first language to a target language pattern of another written language, which includes a computer with a memory. There are a plurality of translation patterns stored in the memory. Each translation pattern includes a source language pattern; a variable that is identified with a portion of the source language pattern; and a target language pattern which is a translation corresponding to the base source language pattern. The variable is either a singular variable which corresponds to a singular source language pattern, or a nested variable which corresponds to a nested source language pattern. Each nested source language pattern is a combination of two or more singular source language patterns. A portion compares a text sentences to one or more nested source language patterns and singular source language pattern to determine if there is a match between the text sentence and the nested or the singular source language patterns.

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