[Corpora-List] Microsoft patents verb conjugations

[Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões]

There is a lot of software doing this already. At the moment I recall a 
bunch of Lingua:: Perl modules, jspell (a PT morphologicla analyzer) and 
I am sure there are a lot more.

I wonder what comes next...

Alberto

John F. Sowa 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
> 
> 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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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
                  Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal

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