Interactive Multilingual Word-Alignment Techniques

Patent №

US 8,930,176

Granted

2015-01-06

Filed 2010

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12753023

Techniques for interactively presenting word-alignments of multilingual translations and automatically improving those translations based upon user feedback are described herein. With one or more implementations of the techniques described herein, a word-alignment user-interface (UI) concurrently displays a pair of bilingual sentences, where one is a translation of the other, and interactively highlights linked (i.e., “word-aligned”) words and phrases of the pair. Other implementations of the techniques described herein offer an option for a user to provide feedback about the existing word-alignments or realign the words or phrases. In still other described implementations, word-alignment is automatically improved based upon that user feedback.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning0.96
AI hardware0.77
Knowledge representation0.52
Planning0.40
Vision0.06
Evolutionary computation0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 242830021

Assignors

LI, HENRY, SCOTT, MATTHEW ROBERT, LIU, XIAOHUA, WEI, HAO, ZHOU, MING

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

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