Patent ID: 8321195
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for improving word alignment quality in a multilingual corpus, the multilingual corpus including a plurality of corresponding sentence pairs between any two languages among a first language, a second language, and at least one other language, and word alignment information between each of said plurality of corresponding sentence pairs, the method comprising: inducing word alignment between a first sentence of said first language and a second sentence of said second language by using said word alignment information between said first sentence of said first language and a third sentence of said at least one other language corresponding to said first sentence and said second sentence, and said word alignment information between said second sentence of said second language and said third sentence of said at least one other language; and combining said induced word alignment and said word alignment information between said first sentence of said first language and said second sentence of said second language in said multilingual corpus, wherein said inducing step includes wherein said combining step includes