US5995920A — Computer-based method and system for monolingual …

Claim 1

Independent Claim 144 words

A computer-based method for monolingual document development, comprising the steps of: (1) entering into a text editor input text in a source language; (2) checking said input text against vocabulary source language constraints; (3) providing to an author interactive feedback relating to said source input text if non-constrained source language is present in said source input text until said source input text has been modified into a constrained source text; (4) checking for syntactic grammatical errors and semantic ambiguities in said constrained source text; (5) providing interactive feedback to said author to remove said syntactic grammatical errors and said semantic ambiguities in said constrained source text to produce unambiguous constrained text; (6) producing at least one unambiguous constrained information element from at least a portion of said unambiguous constrained text; and (7) saving said at least one unambiguous constrained information element for later use.

Claim 2

Dependent Claim 144 words

A computer-based method for monolingual document development, comprising the steps of: (1) entering into a text editor input text in a source language; (2) checking said input text against vocabulary source language constraints; (3) providing to an author interactive feedback relating to said source input text if non-constrained source language is present in said source input text until said source input text has been modified into a constrained source text; (4) checking for syntactic grammatical errors and semantic ambiguities in said constrained source text; (5) providing interactive feedback to said author to remove said syntactic grammatical errors and said semantic ambiguities in said constrained source text to produce unambiguous constrained text; (6) producing at least one unambiguous constrained information element from at least a portion of said unambiguous constrained text; and (7) saving said at least one unambiguous constrained information element for later use.

Claim 3

Dependent Claim 48 words

A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said step of providing interactive feedback includes the step of marking with a tag a portion of said input text in response to user input, wherein said tag indicates a linguistic characteristic of said portion of said input text.

Claim 4

Dependent Claim 20 words

A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said input text includes label text associated with a graphic file.

Claim 5

Dependent Claim 46 words

A method, as set forth in claim 3, wherein said step of providing interactive feedback including the step of marking with a tag, based on input by an author, said label text, wherein said tag indicates a linguistic characteristic of said portion of said input text.

Claim 6

Dependent Claim 133 words

A computer based system for monolingual document development, comprising: a text editor adapted to accept interactively from an author input text written in a source language; a language editor, which is an extension of said text editor, which interactively enforces first lexical constraints and then grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by said author to create said input text, wherein said author is interactively aided in enforcing said lexical and grammatical constraints on said input text so as to produce unambiguous constrained text, and to produce at least one unambiguous constrained information element from at least a portion of said unambiguous constrained text, and responsively save said at least one unambiguous constrained information element for later use; and, wherein said language editor comprises a grammar checker including means for interactive disambiguation.

Claim 7

Dependent Claim 133 words

A computer based system for monolingual document development, comprising: a text editor adapted to accept interactively from an author input text written in a source language; a language editor, which is an extension of said text editor, which interactively enforces first lexical constraints and then grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by said author to create said input text, wherein said author is interactively aided in enforcing said lexical and grammatical constraints on said input text so as to produce unambiguous constrained text, and to produce at least one unambiguous constrained information element from at least a portion of said unambiguous constrained text, and responsively save said at least one unambiguous constrained information element for later use; and, wherein said language editor comprises a grammar checker including means for interactive disambiguation.

Claim 8

Dependent Claim 137 words

A computer based system for monolingual document development, comprising: a text editor adapted to accept interactively from an author input text written in a source language; a language editor, which is an extension of said text editor, which interactively enforces lexical and grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by said author to create said input text, wherein said author is interactively aided in enforcing said lexical and grammatical constraints on said input text so as to produce unambiguous constrained text, and to produce at least one unambiguous constrained information element from at least a portion of said unambiguous constrained text, and responsively save said at least one unambiguous constrained information element for later use; and, wherein said language editor comprises a vocabulary checker for checking said input text against a permitted lexicon and suggesting alternatives.

Claim 9

Dependent Claim 137 words

A computer based system for monolingual document development, comprising: a text editor adapted to accept interactively from an author input text written in a source language; a language editor, which is an extension of said text editor, which interactively enforces lexical and grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by said author to create said input text, wherein said author is interactively aided in enforcing said lexical and grammatical constraints on said input text so as to produce unambiguous constrained text, and to produce at least one unambiguous constrained information element from at least a portion of said unambiguous constrained text, and responsively save said at least one unambiguous constrained information element for later use; and, wherein said language editor comprises a vocabulary checker for checking said input text against a permitted lexicon and suggesting alternatives.

Claim 10

Dependent Claim 154 words

A computer based system for monolingual document development, comprising: a text editor adapted to accept interactively from an author input text written in a source language; a language editor, which is an extension of said text editor, which interactively enforces lexical and grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by said author to create said input text, wherein said author is interactively aided in enforcing said lexical and grammatical constraints on said input text so as to produce unambiguous constrained text, and to produce at least one unambiguous constrained information element from at least a portion of said unambiguous constrained text, and responsively save said at least one unambiguous constrained information element for later use; and, means for marking with a tag a portion of said input text which has been rendered unambiguous constrained text by said interactive enforcement, wherein said tag indicates a linguistic characteristic of said portion of said input text.

Claim 11

Dependent Claim 154 words

A computer based system for monolingual document development, comprising: a text editor adapted to accept interactively from an author input text written in a source language; a language editor, which is an extension of said text editor, which interactively enforces lexical and grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by said author to create said input text, wherein said author is interactively aided in enforcing said lexical and grammatical constraints on said input text so as to produce unambiguous constrained text, and to produce at least one unambiguous constrained information element from at least a portion of said unambiguous constrained text, and responsively save said at least one unambiguous constrained information element for later use; and, means for marking with a tag a portion of said input text which has been rendered unambiguous constrained text by said interactive enforcement, wherein said tag indicates a linguistic characteristic of said portion of said input text.

Claim 12

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The system of claim 7, wherein said system for monolingual document development operates in a translation server environment which allows multiple authors to use the system.

Claim 13

Dependent Claim 19 words

The system of claim 7, wherein said author operates on a workstation which is part of a computer network.

Claim 14

Dependent Claim 27 words

The system of claim 7, wherein said system for monolingual document development includes an interpreter which is configured to translate said unambiguous constrained source text into interlingua.

Claim 15

Dependent Claim 19 words

The system of claim 7, wherein said language editor provides said interaction with said author in a batch mode.

Claim 16

Dependent Claim 40 words

The system of claim 7, further comprising a graphics editor adapted to create text labels, wherein said text labels can be edited by said author with the aid of said language editor and subsequently translated by a machine translation system.

Claim 17

Dependent Claim 17 words

The system of claim 7, wherein said natural language subset is specified as to lexicon and grammar.

Claim 18

Dependent Claim 17 words

The system of claim 7, wherein said language editor comprises a vocabulary checker and a grammar checker.

Claim 19

Dependent Claim 24 words

The system of claim 14, wherein said vocabulary checker checks said input text against a permitted lexicon and suggests alternatives to non-lexicon word choices.

Claim 20

Dependent Claim 23 words

The system of claim 14, wherein said grammar checker checks for compliance with predefined grammatical rules and suggests alternatives to undefined grammatical structures.

Claim 21

Dependent Claim 20 words

The system of claim 14, wherein said grammar checker provides feedback to the author concerning lexical ambiguities and structural ambiguities.

Claim 22

Dependent Claim 15 words

The system of claim 14, wherein said grammar checker provides a means for interactive disambiguation.

Claim 23

Dependent Claim 13 words

The system of claim 14, wherein said vocabulary checker includes a spell checker.

Claim 24

Dependent Claim 21 words

The system of claim 14, wherein said vocabulary checker is configured to identify words not included in said constrained source language.

Claim 25

Dependent Claim 16 words

The system of claim 7, wherein said input text is provided in blocks of information elements.

Claim 26

Dependent Claim 23 words

The system of claim 21, wherein said tags enable said information elements to be described in terms of their content and logical structure.

Claim 27

Dependent Claim 18 words

The system of claim 7, further comprising storing means for storing said unambiguous constrained text for later use.

Claim 28

Dependent Claim 35 words

The system of claim 7, further comprising means for marking with a tag a portion of said input text which has been rendered unambiguous constrained text by said interactive enforcement, wherein said tag indicates translatability.

Claim 29

Dependent Claim 15 words

The system of claim 7, wherein said tag is indicative of content and logical structure.

Claim 30

Dependent Claim 21 words

The system of claim 7, wherein said tag is indicative of a defined meaning of said portion chosen by said author.

Annuity Stage	Window Opens	Payment Deadline	Surcharge Period Until	Estimated Fee	Status
3.5 Years (Year 4)	2002-11-29	2003-05-31	2003-11-30	$2000.00	Window Closed / Lapsed
7.5 Years (Year 8)	2006-11-29	2007-05-31	2007-11-30	$3760.00	Window Closed / Lapsed
11.5 Years (Year 12)	2010-11-29	2011-05-31	2011-11-30	$7700.00	Window Closed / Lapsed

Computer-based method and system for monolingual document development

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