If anybody has been deriving the infinitive of a verb
from a finite form, you may be violating a recent patent
application by Microsoft. (However, I suspect that there
may be prior art that had been published earlier.)
Following is the title, abstract, and URL.
John Sowa
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Source: http://tinyurl.com/e5g7y
United States Patent Application 20060195313
Voetberg; Eric J.; et al. August 31, 2006
Method and system for selecting and conjugating a verb
Abstract
A verb conjugating system allows a user to input a form of a verb and
display the verb forms. The verb conjugating system allows the user to
input the infinitive form or non-infinitive forms of a verb. When a user
inputs a non-infinitive form of a verb, the verb conjugating system
identifies a corresponding base form of the verb. The verb conjugating
system then uses the base form to retrieve and display the verb forms
for the verb. The verb conjugating system may highlight the
non-infinitive form of the verb within the displayed verb forms to
assist the user in locating the verb form of interest.
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