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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2007
Madalina Barbaiani, Bucharest, RO;
Nicola Cancedda, Grenoble, FR;
Christopher R. Dance, Grenoble, FR;
Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas, Tarragona, ES;
Tamás Gaál, Grenoble, FR;
Eric Gaussier, Eybens, FR;
Madalina Barbaiani, Bucharest, RO;
Nicola Cancedda, Grenoble, FR;
Christopher R. Dance, Grenoble, FR;
Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas, Tarragona, ES;
Tamás Gaál, Grenoble, FR;
Eric Gaussier, Eybens, FR;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
An alignment method includes, for a source sentence in a source language, identifying whether the sentence includes at least one candidate term comprising a contiguous subsequence of words of the source sentence. A target sentence in a target language is aligned with the source sentence. This includes developing a probabilistic model which models conditional probability distributions for alignments between words of the source sentence and words of the target sentence and generating an optimal alignment based on the probabilistic model, including, where the source sentence includes the at least one candidate term, enforcing a contiguity constraint which requires that all the words of the target sentence which are aligned with an identified candidate term form a contiguous subsequence of the target sentence.