Re: [Corpora-List] Microsoft patents verb conjugations

From: Martin Wynne (martin.wynne@oucs.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 13:01:18 MET DST

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    I think we all need to be a bit more careful what we write and say now,
    unless we want to face hefty bills from MS. I suggest run all text
    through an automatic verb lemmatizer to make sure that we can not be
    accuse of conjugate verbs. Unless there be a patent on lemmatizers...

    Martin

    Alexandr Rosen wrote:
    > Am I right in assuming that the patent claims apply to ANY language? English and
    > Spanish are mentioned as examples in DETAILED DESCRIPTION, in a part describing
    > "one embodiment" of the system, but I think there is no specific language
    > mentioned in the Claims part.
    >
    > I find it hard to believe that this is not a joke...
    >
    > Alexandr
    >
    >> On 07/09/06, John F. Sowa <sowa@bestweb.net> wrote:
    >>> 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
    >>> _________________________________________________________
    >>>
    >>> 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
    >
    > Alexandr Rosen
    >
    > Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics
    > Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague
    >
    > address: UTKL FF UK, Celetna 13, CZ 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
    > tel.: +420-221619752, e-mail: alexandr.rosen@ff.cuni.cz
    > http://utkl.ff.cuni.cz/~rosen/
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