Digital universal language

• US 20080221868A1
• Filed: 03/05/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Cohen, Einat H. Melnick, Eldar Nir, Geoffrey L. Melnick
• Original Assignee: David Cohen, Einat H. Melnick, Eldar Nir, Geoffrey L. Melnick
• Inventors: Cohen, David, Melnick, Einat H., Nir, Eldar, Melnick, Geoffrey L.
• Application Number:
  US12/073,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20080221868A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation

Abstract

A numeric, hierarchical knowledge classification system, (e.g., Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)) of concepts, is used for universal annotation. For example, “game” (DDC=799) relates to hunting and “game” (DDC=794.105), to chess. The universal annotation may be combined with human-aided machine translation, so individuals can tag their documents in the source language, simultaneously specifying meanings in the source and target languages, exercising control over what is said in the target language. Multilingual communication, by e-mails, forums, blogs, Wikipedia and the like may proceed, with each participant working in his tongue and tagging his writing with universal concepts. Moreover, a Universal System of Expression (USE) is introduced, based on the universal concepts. USE documents may be generated as byproducts of human-aided machine translations between any two natural languages that recognize USE, for fully automatic translation to other languages, on demand, and libraries of USE documents may be formed.

Claims

1. A computerized system, configured for performing human-aided machine translation, the computerized system including:

an input unit, for providing an input in a first natural language;

a tagging unit, for providing a universal system of annotation, linked at least to the first natural language and a second natural language,

wherein by tagging the input in the first natural language with the universal system of annotation, an operator simultaneously defines meanings in both the first and the second natural languages, thus ensuring that his meaning in the first language is preserved in the second language.

2. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the universal system of annotation is further linked to a third natural language, and by tagging the input in the first natural language with the universal system of annotation, the operator simultaneously defines meanings in the three natural languages.

3. The computerized system of claim 1, employed for multilingual communication.

4. The computerized system of claim 3, wherein the multilingual communication is selected from the group consisting of an e-mail, a blog, a forum, a “

go to meeting”

a Wikipedia, and an SMS.

5. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the universal system of annotation is based on a knowledge classification system.

6. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the universal system of annotation is a numeric and hierarchical knowledge classification system.

7. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the universal system of annotation is based on the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System of numeric concepts.

8. The computerized system of claim 7, wherein the universal system of annotation is based on an adaptation of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System, for universal annotation, by:

i. providing finer numeric concepts, for more specific definitions, where necessary; and

ii. coalescence of numeric concepts, for more general definitions, where necessary.

9. The computerized system of claim 8, and further including associating the numeric concept with a vector format of at least two elements, a numeric concept element and a function element, for conjugating the numeric concept at least by function, to create word-like numeric entities.

10. The computerized system of claim 8, and further including utilizing the word-like numeric entities in multilingual searches.

11. The computerized system of claim 9, wherein the universal system of annotation is a machine readable, multilingual sense dictionary (MSD) which includes:

i. the word-like numeric entities;

ii. substantially identical definitions in at least two natural languages for the word-like numeric entities; and

iii. expressions for each of the word-like numeric entities in each of the at least two natural languages.

12. The computerized system of claim 9, and further including increasing the vector format to a plurality of elements, for conjugating the numeric concept by various attributes.

13. The computerized system of claim 12, wherein the attributes also include an index of the source language word.

14. The computerized system of claim 12, wherein the universal system of annotation is a machine readable, multilingual sense dictionary (MSD) which includes:

i. the word-like numeric entities;

ii. substantially identical definitions in at least two natural languages for the word-like numeric entities; and

iii. expressions for each of the word-like numeric entities in each of the at least two natural languages,

wherein where the necessary expressions are formed as groups of words, the words in the group, which are to be conjugated in accordance with the various attributes indicated by the vector elements, are marked in the MSD, so as to allow replacing the word-like numeric entities with the expressions, correctly conjugated upon translation from the word-like numeric entities to any of the natural languages.

15. The computerized system of claim 9, wherein the universal system of annotation is a machine readable, multilingual sense dictionary (MSD) of the word-like numeric entities, the MSD including:

i. word-like numeric entities;

ii. substantially identical definitions in at least three languages for the word-like numeric entities; and

iii. expressions for the word-like numeric entities in each of the at least three languages.

16. The computerized system of claim 15, configured for providing a universal system of expression (USE), which is natural-language-free, the computerized system including:

an expression unit, for expressing an input of a natural language, having at least two terms and a well defined syntactic relationship in the natural language, between the terms, as word-like numeric entities;

a syntax unit for providing a syntactic code of syntax operators, for describing syntax operations; and

a universal system of expression unit for combining the word-like numeric entities and the syntax operators, to form universal expressions, free of sense and syntax associations with any natural language.

17. The computerized system of claim 16, configured for providing fully automatic ruled based machine translation from USE to the languages that are included in the MSD.

18. The computerized system of claim 17, configured for providing USE documents as byproducts of human-aided machine translations between any two natural languages that are included in the MSD, via interrogatory software, for fully automatic ruled based machine translation to other languages of the MSD.

19. The computerized system of claim 17, employed in multilingual communication.

20. A method for performing human-aided machine translation, including:

providing an input in a first natural language;

tagging the input in the first natural language with a universal system of annotation, linked at least to the first natural language and to a second natural language, thereby simultaneously defining meanings in both the first and the second natural languages, and ensuring that the meaning in the first language is preserved in the second language.

21. The method of claim 20, and further including associating the numeric concept with a vector format of a plurality of elements:

a numeric concept element, a function element, and elements for various attributes, for conjugating the numeric concept, by function and by attributes, to create word-like numeric entities,

wherein the universal system of annotation is a machine readable, multilingual sense dictionary (MSD) which includes;

i. the word-like numeric entities;

ii. substantially identical definitions in at least three natural languages for the word-like numeric entities; and

iii. expressions for each of the word-like numeric entities in each of the at least three natural languages,

wherein the expressions for each of the word-like numeric entities in each of the at least three natural languages are provided by translators to the at least three languages working together, simultaneously translating the word-like numeric entities to the at least three languages and simultaneously ensuring translation agreement amongst the at least three languages.

22. Apparatus for freeing an input in one of a plurality of natural languages from syntax rules of the one natural language, including:

an input of at least two words, in the one natural language, combined by syntax rules of the one natural language, and associated with a meaning in the one natural language;

a syntax unit for providing symbols, as syntax operators, which describe syntax operations; and

a universal syntax unit for combining the at least two words with at least one syntax operator, to form at least one written expression, free of the syntax rules of the one natural language.