Re: expired translation patent?

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: 20 Feb 2005 16:28:48 -0500

In article <1108901689.106016.181760@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Yef <e97y@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi all,

>I noticed that there seem to be many software patents for
>machine translation. Yet I also noticed that one of the
>early ones by Systran seems to have expired:

>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1...

>Or am I just seeing things?

>At any rate I am wondering, wasn't machine translation as a
>field begun in the 1960s? If so there should be many expired
>patents. I seem to recall an AI program which would parse human
>generated text e.g. Latin or German, create a tree from it
>based on word types, and then convert it to other languages.
>Whose patent (or work) was that?

>Any info appreciated.

Machine translation as a field was active even in the early
1950s. It rapidly became fairly inactive because of its
failure to achieve the desired goal; to do a sufficiently
good job of translating to replace translators, such as
those at the UN doing "simultaneous" translation. 

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