Writing assistance using machine translation techniques

Details Writing assistance using machine translation techniques Writing assistance using machine translation techniques

2011-03-15

2011-03-15

Dorvil, Richemond (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

Natural language

C704S001000, C704S002000, C704S004000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07908132

ABSTRACT:
A system is configured to provide writing assistance within a monolingual input environment based on statistical machine translation techniques typically utilized to translate from an input language to a different target language.

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