Patent ID: 8412513

Claim:
A computer method of synthesizing a sentence in a target language from a language independent semantic structure that conveys a meaning of a source sentence in a source natural language, the method comprising: gathering a set of candidate linguistic descriptions for linguistic elements of the source sentence, wherein said set of candidate linguistic descriptions include morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic descriptions related to the linguistic constructions of the source language; selecting linguistic descriptions from the set of candidate linguistic descriptions based on ratings, wherein the ratings are based on one or more statistics generated during analyzing a text corpus or a corpus of parallel texts in the source natural language and at least one other language; synthesizing a language-independent semantic structure using the selected linguistic descriptions to represent a deep meaning of the source sentence; generating, by a processor, a syntactic structure for the sentence in the target language including performing lexical selections on the language-independent semantic structure using linguistic descriptions of the target language based on at least one of the said ratings; and performing a morphological synthesis on the generated syntactic structure to generate the sentence in the target language using morphological and lexical descriptions of the target language.