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Multiple-parts-of-speech disambiguating method and apparatus for machine translation system

  • US 4,661,924 A
  • Filed: 07/19/1985
  • Issued: 04/28/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A part-of-speech disambiguating apparatus for a machine translation system, comprising:

  • input means for inputting a sentence constituted by words to be disambiguated with respect to the parts of speech which the words function as, respectively;

    a dictionary memory for storing a number of words belonging to a language used in said sentence together with respective parts of speech and appearance frequencies thereof;

    a rule table memory for storing a table containing parts-of-speech disambiguating rules for specifying the parts of speech of the words each of which can function as multiple parts of speech from an array of parts of speech of successive words in which said words whose parts of speech are to be specified are included; and

    a processor connected to said input means, said dictionary memory and said rule table memory, wherein said processor receives said sentence from said input means and determines the parts of speech of the words which are contained in said sentence and capable of functioning as multiple parts of speech, on the basis of data read out from said rule table memory, while determining the parts of speech on the basis of said appearance frequencies read out from said dictionary memory for those words whose parts of speech could not been determined on the basis of the data read out from said rule table memory.

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