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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2010
Applicants:
Xiaodong He, Issaquah, WA (US);
Kristina Toutanova, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Xiaodong He, Issaquah, WA (US);
Kristina Toutanova, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/20 (2006.01); G06F 17/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2854 (2013.01); G06F 17/2818 (2013.01); G06F 17/2827 (2013.01);
Abstract
A joint optimization strategy is employed for combining translation hypotheses from multiple machine-translation systems. Decisions on word alignment, between the hypotheses, ordering, and selection of a combined translation output are made jointly in accordance with a set of features. Additional features that model alignment and ordering behavior are also provided and utilized.