Machine translation method and system
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Abstract
A machine translation method and system comprises the steps of (a) formalizing a non-formal source language in an interactive or automatic way and (b) transforming the formal source language into a formal or non-formal target language in an automatic way. It completely eliminates the language barrier between person and person and the language barrier between person and computer: A user translates his/her non-formal native language entirely correctly and without any lexical ambiguity into any non-formal foreign language which he/she knows nothing about; a user and a computer exchange information in his/her non-formal native language entirely correctly and without any lexical ambiguity. It can be used in network terminal equipment, Internet knowledge bases, knowledge reasoning search engines, expert systems and automatic programming. That formalization of a source language is the common foundation for transformation into various target languages makes it especially suitable for multilingual machine translation.
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33. A method of machine translation which has the following technical features:
- the process of translation is first formalizing a non-formal source language and then transforming the formal source language into a target language;
the method has two ways of formalizing a non-formal source language, i.e. an interactive way and an automatic way;
the method has two target languages, i.e. a formal target language and a non-formal target language;
the process of formalizing a non-formal source language is first identifying one by one the fixed language segments of an initial language segment of a non-formal source language and tagging the fixed language segments with meaning marks until the last fixed language segment and then composing level by level the non-fixed language segments of the initial language segment and tagging the non-fixed language segments with key component marks and relation marks until the non-fixed language segment constituted by the whole initial language segment;
the process of transforming a formal source language into a formal target language is transforming in an automatic way the fixed language segments of the source language into language segments of the target language according to fixed language segment transformation rules;
the process of transforming a formal source language into a non-formal target language is first transforming in an automatic way the fixed language segments of the source language into language segments of the target language according to fixed language segment transformation rules and then transforming level by level in an automatic way the non-fixed language segments of the source language into language segments of the target language according to non-fixed language segment transformation rules. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
- the process of translation is first formalizing a non-formal source language and then transforming the formal source language into a target language;
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40. A system of machine translation which has the following technical features:
- the system comprises a module for formalizing a non-formal source language and a module for transforming a formal source language into a target language which is connected to the module for formalizing a non-formal source language before it;
a module for formalizing a non-formal source language has two ways of formalizing a non-formal source language, i.e. an interactive way and an automatic way;
a module for transforming a formal source language into a target language has two target languages, i.e. a formal target language and a non-formal target language;
in a module for formalizing a non-formal source language, the process of formalizing a non-formal source language is first identifying one by one the fixed language segments of an initial language segment of a non-formal source language and tagging the fixed language segments with meaning marks until the last fixed language segment and then composing level by level the non-fixed language segments of the initial language segment and tagging the non-fixed language segments with key component marks and relation marks until the non-fixed language segment constituted by the whole initial language segment;
in a module for transforming a formal source language into a target language, the process of transforming a formal source language into a formal target language is transforming in an automatic way the fixed language segments of the source language into language segments of the target language according to fixed language segment transformation rules;
in a module for transforming a formal source language into a target language, the process of transforming a formal source language into a non-formal target language is first transforming in an automatic way the fixed language segments of the source language into language segments of the target language according to fixed language segment transformation rules and then transforming level by level in an automatic way the non-fixed language segments of the source language into language segments of the target language according to non-fixed language segment transformation rules. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
- the system comprises a module for formalizing a non-formal source language and a module for transforming a formal source language into a target language which is connected to the module for formalizing a non-formal source language before it;
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