Patent ID: 8548796
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A machine translation method for translating source text from a first language to target text in a second language, comprising: receiving the source text in the first language; accessing a library of bi-phrases, each of the bi-phrases including a text fragment from the first language and a text fragment from the second language, at least some of the bi-phrases comprising words tagged with restricted part of speech tags, at least one of the restricted part of speech tags configured for identifying a compoundable word from the second language in one of the bi-phrases as being one which also forms a part of a known closed compound word in the second language in another of the bi-phrases, when combined with another compoundable word, wherein: retrieving text fragments in the second language from the library corresponding to text fragments in the source text; generating at least one target hypothesis, each of the target hypotheses comprising text fragments selected from the retrieved text fragments in the second language; and evaluating the target hypothesis with a translation scoring function which scores the target hypothesis according to a plurality of feature functions, at least one of the feature functions being based at least in part on a combination of the first and the second of the restricted part of speech tags; and based on the evaluation, outputting one of the at least one target hypothesis as the optimal hypothesis for forming the translation; and wherein at least one of the accessing, retrieving, evaluating and outputting is performed with a computer processor.