[Corpora-List] Microsoft patents verb conjugations

[Susana Sotillo]

I believe Mark Davis has already done this.  If anyone is infringing on 
"intellectual property" (a ridiculous term), then it's Microsoft.

Susana Sotillo

Oliver Mason wrote:
> 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
>