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Method and device for translating a source text into a target using modeling and dynamic programming

US6182026A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

U.S. Philips Corporation · US

Inventors

Christoph Tillmann · Aachen, DE
Stephan Ralf Vogel · Zofingen, CH
Hermann Ney · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 26, 1998
Grant date	Jan 30, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 26, 2018

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F40/44
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

For translating a word-organized source text into a word-organized target text through mapping of source words on target words, both a translation model and a language model are used. In particular, alignment probabilities are ascertained between various source word & target word pairs, whilst preemptively assuming that alignment between such word pairs is monotonous through at least substantial substrings of a particular sentence. This is done by evaluating incrementally statistical translation performance of various target word strings, deciding on an optimum target word string, and outputting the latter.

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