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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2009
Filed:
May. 10, 2006
Nicola Cancedda, Grenoble, FR;
Marc Dymetman, Grenoble, FR;
Eric Gaussier, Eybens, FR;
Cyril Goutte, Ottawa, CA;
Nicola Cancedda, Grenoble, FR;
Marc Dymetman, Grenoble, FR;
Eric Gaussier, Eybens, FR;
Cyril Goutte, Ottawa, CA;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A machine translation method includes receiving source text in a first language and retrieving text fragments in a target language from a library of bi-fragments to generate a target hypothesis. Each bi-fragment includes a text fragment from the first language and a corresponding text fragment from the second language. Some of the bi-fragments are modeled as elastic bi-fragments where a gap between words is able to assume a variable size corresponding to a number of other words to occupy the gap. The target hypothesis is evaluated with a translation scoring function which scores the target hypothesis according to a plurality of feature functions, at least one of the feature functions comprising a gap size scoring feature which favors hypotheses with statistically more probable gap sizes over hypotheses with statically less probable gap sizes.