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Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2011
Applicant:

Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Waltham, MA (US);

Inventor:
Assignee:

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G06F 17/20 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 25/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An unsupervised boosting strategy is applied to refining automatic word alignment. In some examples, the strategy improves the quality of automatic word alignment, for example for resource poor language pairs, thus improving Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) performance.


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