Patent ID: 8594992

Claim:
A method for aligning one or more than one word of a source language sentence with one or more than one word of a target language sentence, comprising: a) obtaining an input source language sentence, b) comparing said input source language sentence to one or more than one stored source language sentence stored in a translation memory comprising a database with a large number of bilingual sentence pairs, and a sentence pair retrieval module, c) matching said input source language sentence with an entire retrieved source language sentence that resembles said input source language sentence based on a numerical measure of similarity, d) retrieving from an enhanced translation memory said entire retrieved source language sentence and an associated entire retrieved target language sentence, and alignment information about words in said retrieved source language sentence and words in said retrieved target language sentence, e) creating a partial unilingual source language alignment by aligning one or more than one word of said input source language sentence with a corresponding one or more than one word of said entire retrieved source language sentence, f) creating a partial bilingual alignment by aligning the one or more than one word of said input source language sentence with the corresponding one or more than one word of said associated retrieved target language sentence, using the alignment information retrieved in step d), leaving any non-aligned word in the input source language source sentence and the entire retrieved target language sentence unchanged, and g) displaying a result.