All this is quite nonsense, what they are claiming for is a verb
morfological analyzer/generator, and there have been scholar
publications on that for at least 20 years, so the patent claim
shouldn't be granted.
>>> 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
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