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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Thorsten Brants, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ashok C. Popat, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Peng Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Franz J. Och, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey Dean, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer program products for machine translation are provided. In some implementations a system is provided. The system includes a language model including a collection of n-grams from a corpus, each n-gram having a corresponding relative frequency in the corpus and an order n corresponding to a number of tokens in the n-gram, each n-gram corresponding to a backoff n-gram having an order of n−1 and a collection of backoff scores, each backoff score associated with an n-gram, the backoff score determined as a function of a backoff factor and a relative frequency of a corresponding backoff n-gram in the corpus.