Resolving out-of-vocabulary words during machine translation

US8990066B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8990066-B2
Application numberUS-201213362595-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateJan 31, 2012
Priority dateJan 31, 2012
Publication dateMar 24, 2015
Grant dateMar 24, 2015

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Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to perform automated translation from a source language to a target language. For example, an out-of-vocabulary word may be identified and a morphological analysis may be performed to determine whether the out-of-vocabulary word reduces to at least one stem. If the out-of-vocabulary word reduces to a stem, the stem may be translated. The translated stem may be inflected if the out-of-vocabulary word is inflected. If the out-of-vocabulary word has any affixes, the affixes may be translated. In some cases, the translated affixes may be reordered before being combined with the inflected and translated stem. If the out-of-vocabulary word is misspelled, the spelling of the out-of-vocabulary word may be corrected before performing the morphological analysis. If the out-of-vocabulary word is a colloquial form of a formal word, the out-of-vocabulary word may be replaced with the formal word before performing the morphological analysis.

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The invention claimed is: 1. A method under control of one or more processors specifically configured with executable instructions, the method comprising: receiving, by a server, a request from a computing device to translate one or more words from a source language to a target language; determining that a phrase table excludes a particular word of the one or more words but includes a remainder of the one or more words; performing a morphological analysis that includes: deter…

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What does patent US8990066B2 cover?
Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to perform automated translation from a source language to a target language. For example, an out-of-vocabulary word may be identified and a morphological analysis may be performed to determine whether the out-of-vocabulary word reduces to at least one stem. If the out-of-vocabulary word reduces to a stem, the stem may be translated. The …
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Chalabi Achraf, Morsy Ahmed Said, Awadalla Hany, and 3 more
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G06F40/242. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Mar 24 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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