Proceedings of the
4th Workshop on
Patent Translation
Shoichi Yokoyama
(editor)
MT
September 23, 2011
Table of Contents
Shoichi Yokoyama .iii
Invited Talk 1: Machine Translation Project and Activities in EPO The patent case
Mr. Bertrand Le Chapelain.................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Invited
Talk 2: Expanding the Applications of MT in
Patent Translation
Dr. Hongfei Jiang .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Invited
Talk 3: Future Plans of Machine Translation
System in the JPO
Mr. Eiichi Yamamoto .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Feedback Selecting of Manually Acquired Rules Using
Automatic Evaluation
Xianhua
Li, Yajuan Lό,
Investigation for Translation Disambiguation of
Verbs in Patent Sentences using Word Grouping
Shoichi Yokoyama, Yuichi Takano ....................................................................................................................................................................... 60
Functional Approach for Patent Translation
Hideto Ikeda, Nguyen Thanh Hung, Ze Zhong Li ................................................................................................................................................ 64
Patent translation within the MOLTO project
Cristina Espaρa-Bonet, Ramona Enache, Adam Slaski, Aarne Ranta, Lluνs Mΰrquez, Meritxell Gonzΰlez .......................................................... 70
Building a Statistical Machine Translation System for
Translating Patent Documents
Jeff Ma, Spyros Matsoukas ......................................................................................................................................................................................79
Exploiting Multi-Features for Word Alignment in
Patent MT
Li Zezhong, Hideto Ikeda, Nguyen Thanh Hung ................................................................................................................................................... 86
Example-based Translation of Japanese Functional
Expressions utilizing Semantic Equivalence Classes
Yusuke Abe, Takafumi Suzuki, Bing Liang, Takehito Utsuro, Mikio Yamamoto, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Yasuhide Kawada ................................. 91