Information conversion method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11880667-B2
Application number	US-202016881310-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 22, 2020
Priority date	Jan 25, 2018
Publication date	Jan 23, 2024
Grant date	Jan 23, 2024

Abstract

This application discloses an information conversion method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic apparatus. The method includes: acquiring, by a hardware device, a source information vector sequence corresponding to source information to be converted; sequentially determining, by the hardware device according to the source information vector sequence and historical conversion result information, a target source information object needing to be converted; searching, by the hardware device, a preconfigured mapping list for a target source information object combination included in the source information; acquiring, by the hardware device, target combination conversion result information corresponding to the target source information object combination from the preconfigured mapping list in a case that the target source information object combination is found; and acquiring, by the hardware device according to the target combination conversion result information, target conversion result information corresponding to the target source information object. This application resolves a technical problem of relatively low flexibility of information conversion in the related art.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information conversion method, comprising:
acquiring, by a hardware device, a source information vector sequence corresponding to source information to be converted, the source information vector sequence comprising: source information object vectors corresponding to source information objects comprised in the source information;
sequentially determining using iteration, by the hardware device, according to the source information vector sequence, a weight factor corresponding to a source information object vector in the source information vector sequence, and historical conversion information, a target source information object needing to be converted, wherein the weight factor has a greatest weight impact on a current hidden state;
searching, by the hardware device, a preconfigured mapping list for a target source information object combination comprised in the source information, wherein the target source information object is located at a first target position in the target source information object combination, and the preconfigured mapping list is used for recording mapping relationships between source information object combinations and combination conversion result information, and wherein the mapping relationships are predefined and fixed in the preconfigured mapping list;
acquiring, by the hardware device, target combination conversion result information corresponding to the target source information object combination from the preconfigured mapping list if the target source information object combination is found;
acquiring, by the hardware device according to the target combination conversion result information, target conversion result information corresponding to the target source information object; and
modifying the current hidden state based on the target conversion result information.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the acquiring, by the hardware device according to the target combination conversion result information, target conversion result information corresponding to the target source information object comprises:
acquiring, by the hardware device, a target combination length of the target combination conversion result information;
acquiring, by the hardware device, an intermediate state set matching the target combination length, wherein each intermediate state in the intermediate state set is separately used for controlling the conversion to obtain one piece of conversion result information, the intermediate state set comprising a first target intermediate state used for controlling the conversion to obtain the target conversion result information, and the first target intermediate state is located at a second target position in the intermediate state set; and
acquiring, by the hardware device, the target conversion result information by using the first target intermediate state determined from the intermediate state set.

3. The method according to claim 2 , after the acquiring, by the hardware device, the target conversion result information by using the first target intermediate state determined from the intermediate state set, further comprising:
determining, by the hardware device, a second target intermediate state used for controlling the conversion to obtain next target conversion result information; and
acquiring, by the hardware device, the next target conversion result information according to the target combination conversion result information if the second target intermediate state belongs to the intermediate state set.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the acquiring, by the hardware device, the next target conversion result information according to the target combination conversion result information if the second target intermediate state belongs to the intermediate state set comprises:
acquiring, by the hardware device, from the target combination conversion result information, and next to the target conversion result information corresponding to the first target intermediate state, next conversion result information to be used as the next target conversion result information corresponding to the second target intermediate state.

5. The method according to claim 3 , after the determining, by the hardware device, a second target intermediate state used for controlling the conversion to obtain next target conversion result information, further comprising:
Searching again, by the hardware device, the preconfigured mapping list for a next target source information object combination if the second target intermediate state does not belong to the intermediate state set, wherein the next target source information object combination comprises a next target source information object needing to be converted.

6. The method according to claim 3 , after the determining, by the hardware device, a second target intermediate state used for controlling the conversion to obtain next target conversion result information, further comprising:
acquiring, by the hardware device, a quantity of intermediate states on which the first target intermediate state superimposes the second target intermediate state;
determining, by the hardware device, that the second target intermediate state belongs to the intermediate state set if the quantity of intermediate states is less than or equal to the target combination length; and
determining, by the hardware device, that the second target intermediate state does not belong to the intermediate state set if the quantity of intermediate states is greater than the target combination length.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the searching, by the hardware device, a preconfigured mapping list for a target source information object combination comprised in the source information comprises:
acquiring, by the hardware device from the preconfigured mapping list according to the target source information object, a source information object combination set included in the source information, wherein the target source information object is located at the first target position in each source information object combination in the source information object combination set; and
searching, by the hardware device, the source information object combination set for a source information object combination with a largest source combination length to be used as the target source information object combination.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sequentially determining, by the hardware device according to the source information vector sequence and historical conversion result information, a target source information object needing to be converted comprises:
acquiring, by the hardware device, previous conversion result information from the historical conversion result information;
acquiring, by the hardware device, a target source information object vector from the source information vector sequence according to the source information vector sequence and the previous conversion result information; and
determining, by the hardware device, the target source information object according to the target source information object vector.

9. An apparatus for information conversion, comprising a memory for storing computer readable instructions and a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the computer readable instructions to cause the apparatus to:
acquire a source information vector sequence corresponding to source information to be converted, wherein the source information vector sequence comprises: source information object vectors corresponding to source information objects comprised in the source information;
sequentially determine using iteration, by the hardware de

Assignees

• Tencent Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Xie Jun
• Wang Mingxuan
• Huang Jiangquan
• Yao Jian

Classifications

• G06F40/58 Primary

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• G06F40/30

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