Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sakhr Software Company

Achraf Chalabi

Mostafa Ashour

Jianfeng Gao

Christopher Brian Quirk

Arun Sacheti

Marcelo Medeiros De Barros

Hisami Suzuki

Parthasarathy Govindarajen

Vikram Reddy Dendi

Pallavi Choudhury

Sumit Chatterjee

Yucan Zhang

Ahmed Said Morsy

Sayed Hassan

Mohamed Ahmed El-Sharqwi

Roaa Mohammed

Sharada Chandrasekaran

Aditya Khandelwal

Hany Awadalla

Waleed Ammar

Hany Grees

A computing system includes a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform acts. The acts include receiving a query provided by a user. The acts additionally include determining that the query is related to a comparison between entities. Based upon the determining that the query is related to the comparison between entities, the computing system generates a prompt that is to be input to a generative language model, where the prompt includes:) an instruction for the generative language model to generate a table based upon the query; and) attribute values for entities identified by a search system based upon the query. The acts also include providing the prompt as input to the generative language model, where the generative language model generates a table based upon the prompt, and further where the table includes the attribute values for the entities.

Computer-implemented table construction

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.

Resolving out-of-vocabulary words during machine translation

Machine translation phrase table augmentation embodiments are described that employ an automatic syntax-based scheme to produce additional phrase pairs and insert them into a phrase table. One general process implementing this augmentation involves inputting one or more syntactic transfer patterns, and for each pattern synthesizing phrases in a source language of the type associated with the pattern using a source language lexicon. Phrases, such as those not found in a monolingual corpus of the source language, are eliminated from the synthesized phrases. Each of the remaining synthesized phrases is then translated into the target language using the syntactic transfer pattern, a bilingual source-to-target language dictionary, and a morphological synthesizer. Those translated phrases not found in a monolingual corpus of the target language are then eliminated. Phrase pairs made up of a remaining translated phrase and its corresponding source language phrase are then added to the phrase table being augmented.

Syntax-based augmentation of statistical machine translation phrase tables

The universal text input technique described herein addresses the difficulties of typing text in various languages and scripts, and offers a unified solution, which combines character conversion, next word prediction, spelling correction and automatic script switching to make it extremely simple to type any language from any device. The technique provides a rich and seamless input experience in any language through a universal IME (input method editor). It allows a user to type in any script for any language using a regular qwerty keyboard via phonetic input and at the same time allows for auto-completion and spelling correction of words and phrases while typing. The technique also provides a modeless input that automatically turns on and off an input mode that changes between different types of script.

Universal text input

The present disclosure describes a system and method of transliterating Semitic languages with support for diacritics. An input module receives and pre-processes Romanized character and forwards the pre-processed Romanized characters to a transliteration engine. The transliteration engine selects candidate transliteration rules, applies the rules, and scores and ranks the results for output. To optimize search for candidate transliteration rules, the transliteration engine may apply word-stemming strategies to process inflections indicated by affixes. The present disclosure further describes optimizations as pre-processing emphasis text, caching, dynamic transliteration rule pruning, and buffering/throttling input. The system and methods are suitable for multiple applications including but not limited to web applications, windows applications, client-server applications and input method editors such as those via Microsoft Text Services Framework TSF&#x2122;.

Transliterating semitic languages including diacritics

Word sense ambiguity, for 'thematic' words in a sentence, is achieved based on thematic prediction. The senses of 'thematic' words are disambiguated in a sentence by determining and weighting possible themes for that sentence. Possible themes are determined for that sentence based on thematic information associated with the different senses of each word in the sentence. A highly deterministic thematic-based word sense disambiguation method is used to preprocess the sentence prior to further syntactic and semantic analysis, thereby enhancing accuracy and decreasing the demand for computational resources (memory and CPU) by reducing input ambiguities.

Method and system for theme-based word sense ambiguity reduction

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