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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.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On 07/09/06, John F. Sowa
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sowa@bestweb.net"><sowa@bestweb.net></a> wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">If anybody has been deriving the
infinitive of a verb
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from a finite form, you may be violating a recent patent
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application by Microsoft. (However, I suspect that there
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may be prior art that had been published earlier.)
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Following is the title, abstract, and URL.
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John Sowa
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Source: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/e5g7y">http://tinyurl.com/e5g7y</a>
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United States Patent Application 20060195313
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Voetberg; Eric J.; et al. August 31, 2006
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Method and system for selecting and conjugating a verb
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