Patent ID: 6356865
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
A method for performing spoken language translation, comprising:receiving at least one speech input comprising at least one source language; recognizing at least one source expression of the at least one source language; translating the recognized at least one source expression from the at least one source language to at least one target language wherein translating comprising; performing morphological analysis of the recognized at least one source expression using at least one source language dictionary and at least one source language morphological rule, generating at least one sequence of analyzed morphemes, performing syntactic source language analysis using grammar rule-based processing and example-based processing, generating at least one source language syntactic representation based on the source language analysis, and performing source language to target language transfer using at least one example database and at least one thesaurus, wherein the morphological analysis and the syntactic source language analysis and independent of the transfer and a domain; synthesizing at least one speech output form the translated at least one target language; and providing the at least one speech output.