Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Linguistics – Translation machine
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-15
2007-05-15
Hudspeth, David (Department: 2626)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Linguistics
Translation machine
Reexamination Certificate
active
10924643
ABSTRACT:
A method and computer-readable medium determine word association scores for word pairs. Each word association score is converted into a translation probability using a normalization value that reserves probability mass for unseen data.
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Hudspeth David
Jackson Jakieda R.
Magee Theodore M.
Westman Champlin & Kelly P.A.
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