Translation of an initially-unknown message

Details Translation of an initially-unknown message Translation of an initially-unknown message

1997-07-07

1999-09-28

Isen, Forester W.

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

Translation machine

704 5, G06F 1728

Patent

active

059603828

ABSTRACT:
Translation of an initially-unknown message (101) from one language to another is effected by a translator (102) that uses prototype messages (300-303) that are independent of message variables (% n), whereby a prototype message represents all messages of an individual type that vary from each other in the values of their variables. A multi-tiered multi-node translation tree (104) is constructed from native-language prototype messages (106) that represent all native-language messages that require translation. Strings (e.g., words and numerals) which make up a native-language message (101) are matched in the order in which they appear in the message against the nodes (521-536) of corresponding tiers (501-516) of the tree to reach a node which represents the last string in the message and contains the message identifier (MSG.ID) of the corresponding prototype message. This identifier is used to retrieve the corresponding one of a plurality of foreign-language prototype messages (107). Variables have a first ordering in the identified native-language prototype message and a second ordering in the corresponding foreign-language prototype message. The two orderings are used to determine placement of the variable values, obtained from the native-language message being translated, into the foreign-language prototype message to yield a foreign-language message (108) which is a translation of the native-language message.

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