Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Aurl A Menezes

William B Dolan

Lucretia Henrica Vanderwende

Stephen D Richardson

Michele Banko

Jessie E Pinkman

The present invention is a method and system for identifying words, text fragments, or concepts of interest in a corpus of text. A graph is built which covers the corpus of text. The graph includes nodes and links, where nodes represent a word or a concept and links between the nodes represent directed relation names. A score is then computed for each node in the graph. Scores can also be computed for larger sub-graph portions of the graph (such as tuples) The scores are used to identify desired sub-graph portions of the graph, those sub-graph portions being referred to as graph fragments.

Method and system for ranking words and concepts in a text using graph-based ranking

A method translates a textual input in a first language to a textual output in a second language. An input logical form is generated based on the textual input. When a plurality of transfer mappings in a transfer mapping database match the input logical form (or at least a portion thereof) one or more of those plurality of matching transfer mappings is selected based on a predetermined metric. Textual output is generated based on the selected transfer logical form.

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