Patents by Inventor Christopher Herbert Langlois Wicher

Christopher Herbert Langlois Wicher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6996518
    Abstract: A machine translation quality determination mechanism uses comparisons of subsequent and potentially numerous reverse translations of a translated human language back to the source language. The process of translating from source language to target language to source language may iterate many times to ultimately yield information as to an assertion of low quality translation. Thus, the present invention continuously iterates this “back-and-forth” translation until the resulting source human language text is not reasonably equivalent to the original source human language or until the process iterates a predetermined number of times. If the back-and-forth translation results in a source human language text that is not reasonably equivalent to the original source text, then the translation is identified as low quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carol Ann Jones, Dennis D. King, Christopher Herbert Langlois Wicher
  • Publication number: 20020087301
    Abstract: A machine translation quality determination mechanism uses comparisons of subsequent and potentially numerous reverse translations of a translated human language back to the source language. The process of translating from source language to target language to source language may iterate many times to ultimately yield information as to an assertion of low quality translation. Thus, the present invention continuously iterates this “back-and-forth” translation until the resulting source human language text is not reasonably equivalent to the original source human language or until the process iterates a predetermined number of times. If the back-and-forth translation results in a source human language text that is not reasonably equivalent to the original source text, then the translation is identified as low quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carol Ann Jones, Dennis D. King, Christopher Herbert Langlois Wicher