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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Hiroshi Nakagiri, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuaki Otsuki, Tokyo, JP;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Map label translation implementations described herein transliterate and translate map labels in a first language, even those written in a non-Latin script, into a Latin script and into a second language. In some implementations a translation candidate generator process generates possible translation candidate sequences for each n-gram in the map label, for example, an entity's name in Japanese and possibly in native Japanese (non-Latin, non-Roman) script. A candidate sequence selector selects a number of top possible translation candidate sequences. A ranking feature extraction process is used to rank the selected top number of top possible translation candidate sequences by using a trained probabilistic classifier and geospatial and linguistic context information as ranking features. A post ranker then re-ranks the selected ranked translation candidates depending on neighboring proximity information around the location of the entity and outputs the best map label translation in the second language.