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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001

Filed:

Jun. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Christoph Tillmann, Aachen, DE;

Stephan Vogel, Köln, DE;

Hermann Ney, Aachen, DE;

Assignee:

U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/728 ; G10L 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/728 ; G10L 1/500 ;
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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