EP0499366A2
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System for checking the translation of a document
Assignee: British and Foreign Bible Society
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Filing: 1992-01-23
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2012-01-23
Abstract
Abstract Two text documents, one of which is a (possibly erroneous) translation of the other are stored in the memory of a text processing system. The distributions and forms of words within the documents are compared and by a statistical process it is determined which words are likely to be correctly translated. A list of those words which seem to have been inconsistently translated is compiled.
Inventors
- 👤 David William Clough Robinson
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 17:56
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F40/00; G06F40/20; G06F40/237; G06F40/242; G06F40/40; G06F40/42; G06F40/44; G06F40/58
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
138 words
A method of processing a first text document and a second text document, each of the documents being divided into segments and stored in memory means of a text processing system, the segments being further divided into words, the method comprising carrying out the steps of: a) selecting a word in the first text document and a word in the second text document and determining a representation of the probability that the two words have substantially the same meaning by taking into account the result of a comparison of the distribution of words in the segments of the first text document and the second text document; and b) regarding two words for which the representation of the probability that they have substantially the same meaning is greater than a threshold to be words having substantially the same meaning.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
129 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a word in the first text is regarded to have substantially the same meaning as a word in the second text document if: a) the representation of the probability of having substantially the same meaning as that word in the first text document is greater for that word in the second text document than for any other word in the second text document; b) the ratio of the greatest representation of the probability of having substantially the same meaning as a word in the second text document to the next greatest such representation is greater for that word in the first text document than for any other word in the first text document; and c) that ratio is greater than one.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
106 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein each segment in the first text document corresponds to a single segment in the second text document and the representation of the probability that a selected word in the first text document and a selected word in the second text document have substantially the same meaning is determined by a process comprising determining the number of times that words identical to the selected word in the first text document and of the same form as the selected word in the second text document occur in corresponding segments of the first and second text documents respectively.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
19 words
A method as claimed in claim 3, wherein to be of the same form two words must be identical.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
41 words
A method as claimed in claim 3, wherein to be of the same form two words must have a group of one or more consecutive letters in common, and the process also comprises determining the length of that group of letters.
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