BTW, you can search for patents by here:
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html There are some rather interesting ones that relate to aspects of our research. If you search for "sense disambiguation" or "sense discrimination" in the title of a patent, for example, you find some well known techniques. BTW, none of these patents were surprises to me - getting a patent is fairly common practice for research labs that are associated with companies like AT&T, Microsoft, Google, etc. In fact, if you search for "Google" as the assigne name, you can find 7 patents that might give us some insight into how google works. If you search for "Microsoft" as the assigne name, you find over 3,000 patents. :) And if you search for "Educational Testing Service" you find that our visitor on Monday Oct 4 was just awarded a patent last Tuesday (Sept 28) for e-rater. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1='educational+testing+service'.ASNM.&OS=AN/"educational+testing+service"&RS=AN/"educational+testing+service" How's that for a coincidence! Enjoy, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/x3XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
