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Jessie E Pinkham

William B Dolan

Stephen D Richardson

Arul A Menzes

Martine M S A Smets

A method and computer-readable medium are provided that perform a series of steps associated with machine translation. These steps include using a first text in a first language and a second text in a second language, to produce an association list where words in the first language are associated with words in the second language. A first syntactic structure for a sentence from the first text is aligned with a second syntactic structure for a sentence in the second text based on the association list without referring to a bilingual dictionary of content words. The association list is also used during translations. Specifically, a word in the first language is translated into a word in the second language based on an entry in the association list without referring to a bilingual dictionary that contains content words. Thus, training and translation are performed without the need for a bilingual dictionary of content words.

Machine translation using learned word associations without referring to a multi-lingual human authored dictionary of content words

A machine translator trained with textual inputs generated by other machine translators is disclosed. A textual input in a first language is provided by a user or other source. This textual input is then translated by a first machine translator to generate a translated version of the textual input in a second language. The textual input and the translated version are parsed and passed through a training architecture to develop a transfer mapping, and a bilingual dictionary. These components are then used by a second machine translator when translating other textual inputs.

Unilingual translator

A computer implemented 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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