Chinese to English automatic patent machine translation at SIPO

As a move to meet the global demand for Chinese patent information, a Chinese to English automatic patent MT service was launched by the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China, providing free of charge on-the-fly machine translation for claims and specifications of Chinese patents. The service adopts a hybrid-strategy method implemented by a semantically improved MT engine, and is integrated with the previously available English search tools for the English databases of human translation results of Chinese patent abstracts and bibliographic data. With a fast translation speed and acceptable readability, the service is expected to offer an assimilation tool for non-Chinese users. Future proposals for improving translation quality are summarized.