[Corpora-List] Microsoft patents verb conjugations

[Martin Wynne]

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 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
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> Alexandr Rosen
> 
> Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics
> Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague
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> address: UTKL FF UK, Celetna 13, CZ 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
> tel.: +420-221619752, e-mail: alexandr.rosen at ff.cuni.cz
> http://utkl.ff.cuni.cz/~rosen/
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