A Method for Identifying <i>V+N </i>Compound Nouns in Patent Machine Translation

Abstract

In this paper, we introduced one kind of special compound noun in Chinese patent texts composed of verb and noun, and presented a rule-based method for Chinese-English patent Machine Translation (MT) to improve the identification of compound nouns, with the purpose of decreasing the possibilities that verbs may disturb the identification of core predicate verb. The system first tagged different weights on verbs then determined the properties of verbs and recognized the compounds according to the weights. We then conducted experiments with the method, which proved that the method could identify compound nouns efficiently.