Patent Translation

Abstract

The NTCIR patent translation task was the first task for the machine translation of patents that used large-scale patent parallel sentence pairs. In this chapter, we first present the history of machine translation; the contribution of evaluation workshops to machine translation research, and previous evaluation workshops; and the challenge of patent translation at the time of the first patent translation task at NTCIR. We then describe the innovations at NTCIR, including the sharing of research infrastructure, the progress of corpus-based machine translation technologies, and evaluation methods for patent translation. Finally, we outline the developments in machine translation technologies, including patent translation and remark on the future of patent translation.