Abstract: A machine translation method and system for improving the accuracy of the selection of appropriate words, without incurring any deterioration of the processing efficiency, includes registering, during the translation of a document by using a compound word dictionary, elemental word information of an applied compound word in a discourse dictionary, and employing a plurality of dictionaries, including the discourse dictionary, to translate the document without using a compound word dictionary.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 31, 1998
Date of Patent:
January 30, 2001
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Abstract: A segment announcing system is disclosed that contains one or more segment announcement receivers that receive one or more announcements over a network connection and/or other communication connection. The announcements contain content information about the content of broadcast information being broadcast, e.g., to a television. The segment announcement receivers have one or more control outputs to perform a function, typically to control the segment announcement receivers during processing of information called a content stream.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 15, 1998
Date of Patent:
December 21, 1999
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation