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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2008
Arul A. Menezes, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher B. Quirk, Seattle, WA (US);
Arul A. Menezes, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher B. Quirk, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Many machine translation scenarios involve the generation of a language translation rule set based on parallel training corpuses (e.g., sentences in a first language and word-for-word translations into a second language.) However, the translation of a source corpus in a source language to a target corpus in a target language involves at least two aspects: selecting elements of the target language to match the elements of the source corpus, and ordering the target elements according to the semantic organization of the source corpus and the grammatic rules of the target language. The breadth of generalization of the translation rules derived from the training may be improved, while retaining contextual information, by formulating language order templates that specify orderings of small sets of target elements according to target element types. These language order templates may be represented with varying degrees of association with the alignment rules derived from the training in order to improve the scope of target elements to which the ordering rules and alignment rules may be applied.