JOINT OPTIMIZATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM COMBINATION

Patent №

US 9,201,871

Granted

2015-12-01

Filed 2010

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12814422

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.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Speech0.99
Knowledge representation0.67
AI hardware0.30
Vision0.07
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 245330861

Assignors

HE, XIAODONG, TOUTANOVA, KRISTINA

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

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