Machine translation using learned word associations without...

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2008-04-08

2008-04-08

Hudspeth, David (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

Translation machine

Reexamination Certificate

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10376743

ABSTRACT:
A method and computer-readable medium are provided that perform a series of steps associated with machine translation. These steps include using a first text in a first language and a second text in a second language, to produce an association list where words in the first language are associated with words in the second language. A first syntactic structure for a sentence from the first text is aligned with a second syntactic structure for a sentence in the second text based on the association list without referring to a bilingual dictionary of content words. The association list is also used during translations. Specifically, a word in the first language is translated into a word in the second language based on an entry in the association list without referring to a bilingual dictionary that contains content words. Thus, training and translation are performed without the need for a bilingual dictionary of content words.

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