Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Linguistics – Translation machine
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-25
2008-03-25
Dorvil, Richemond (Department: 2626)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Linguistics
Translation machine
C704S009000, C704S254000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07349839
ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for aligning sentences in a first corpus to sentences in a second corpus. The method includes applying a length-based alignment model to align sentence boundaries of a sentence in the first corpus with sentence boundaries of a sentence in the second corpus to form an aligned sentence pair. The aligned sentence pair is then used to train a translation model. Once trained, the translation model is used to align sentences in the first corpus to sentences in the second corpus. Under aspects of the invention, pruning is used to reduce the number of sentence boundary alignments considered by the length-based alignment model and by the translation model. In further aspects of the invention, the length-based model utilizes a Poisson distribution.
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Dorvil Richemond
Han Qi
Magee Theodore M.
Microsoft Corporation
Westman Champlin & Kelly P.A.
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