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Automatic word alignment

US8655640B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 2, 2011
Grant dateFeb 18, 2014
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Expiry dateJul 5, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F40/45
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An unsupervised boosting strategy is applied to refining automatic word alignment. In some examples, the strategy improves the quality of automatic word alignment, for example for resource poor language pairs, thus improving Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) performance.

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