[Corpora-List] Microsoft patents verb conjugations

[Oliver Mason]

This is ridiculous.  I implemented something like that about ten years
ago for the Cobuild corpus access system, and of course I didn't
invent it myself.

Surely it must cost money to apply for patents, and this one should
never be granted, so it'd just be a waste of time and money.

They'll probably apply for "A method of transferring information
between autonomous agents using modulation of local air pressure" next
and sue all of us for talking.

Oliver

On 07/09/06, John F. Sowa <sowa at 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