METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING STATISTICAL WORD ALIGNMENT MODELS USING SMOOTHING

Patent №

US 7,103,531

Granted

2006-09-05

Filed 2004

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10924725

A method of iteratively re-estimating translation probabilities using smoothing. In the method, initial values for the translation probabilities are determined. The values of the translation probabilities are then iteratively re-estimated while using a smoothing technique.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Speech1.00
AI hardware0.99
Knowledge representation0.20
Vision0.18
Evolutionary computation0.02
Planning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 157330113

Assignors

MOORE, ROBERT C.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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