Patent ID: 7200550
Filing Date: 2007-04-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a target language dependency structure, the method comprising: accessing a training data corpus having a plurality of pairs of parallel text fragments, each pair of parallel text fragments comprising a source language text fragment and a corresponding target language text fragment; obtaining an aligned structure in which lexical items in a source language dependency structure, generated based on a source language text fragment, are aligned with lexical items in a corresponding target language text fragment; and projecting dependencies from lexical items in the source language dependency structure to lexical items in the target language text fragment to obtain the target language dependency structure, wherein the target language dependency structure comprises a target language dependency tree and wherein the dependency projection component is configured to re-adjust the target language dependency structure by identifying a node in the target language dependency tree that is out of order, and re-attaching the identified node at a lowest level in the target language dependency tree that yields a target language string with lexical items in the same order that they appear in the target language text fragment.